A sacrament is any visible sign of God’s invisible presence. Matrimony is a sacrament of vocation and commitment to a life of mutual love and service. In the Roman Catholic Church the institution of holy matrimony was raised to the level of a sacrament due to the origin of the divine grace that made an indissoluble union, the union of Christ with his Church as his mystical body. The creation story in Genesis is the root of the Church’s understanding of the sacredness of marriage. “The Lord God said: ‘It is not good that a man should be alone’. …Therefore, a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his