Through the love present in marriage, he said, we are given an idea of the love that awaits us in Heaven.
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He gets it...
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the Church and gave His life for her.. Ephesians 5:25
That's certainly a tall order in our current corrupt, radically egalitarian, and feminist society.
Ephesians 5:
5Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and delivered himself up for it: 26That he might sanctify it, cleansing it by the laver of water in the word of life: 27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any; such thing; but that it should be holy, and without blemish. 28So also ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself. 29For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as also Christ doth the church: 30Because we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be two in one flesh.
This is certainly a tall order in our current corrupt, radically individualistic, and selfish society.
It is only by the Grace of God that any of us can hope to live as Christ would have us live, rather than as the world tells us to live.
In so far as all Grace is ordered toward our salvation and sanctification, sacramental Marriage, by which Christ imparts Grace to married couples is an instrument of both salvation and sanctification.