The Catholic Parish of Holy Family
A sealing of authentic love between a man and a woman which reflects God's love for us.
God strengthens and sustains people as they enter into a loving bond with God and with each other.
They become one flesh...
Holy Scripture teaches us that man and woman were created for one another: "It is not good that the man should be alone..." The woman, "flesh of his flesh," i.e., his counterpart, his equal, his nearest in all things, is given to him by God as a "helpmate;" she thus represents God from whom comes our help. "Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh." The Lord himself shows that this signifies an unbreakable union of their two lives by recalling what the plan of the Creator had been "in the beginning:" "So they are no longer two, but one flesh
( Catechism of the Catholic Church 1605).
Tel: 020 8657 1728
Email the parish-malachykeegan@rcaos.org.uk
Fr Malachy (Parish Room)
Sat: 9.00am - 12.00Midday
Admin Assistance (Parish Room)
Wed: 10.15am - 12.15pm
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