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Marriage

At Our Parish

Arrangements are to be made with the Pastor at least six months in advance of the preferred wedding date. Contact Fr. C.P. or the parish office.

What do Catholics believe about Marriage?

The sacrament of marriage is a visible sign of God’s love for the Church. When a man and a woman are married in the Church, they receive the grace needed for a lifelong bond of unity.

Marriage is a Covenant
The Sacrament of Marriage is a covenantal union in the image of the covenants between God and his people with Abraham and later with Moses at Mt. Sinai. This divine covenant can never be broken. In this way, marriage is a union that bonds spouses together during their entire lifetime.

The sacrament of Matrimony signifies the union of Christ and the Church. It gives spouses the grace to love each other with the love with which Christ has loved his Church; the grace of the sacrament thus perfects the human love of the spouses, strengthens their indissoluble unity, and sanctifies them on the way to eternal life. (CCC 1661)

The love in a married relationship is exemplified in the total gift of one’s self to another. It’s this self-giving and self-sacrificing love that we see in our other model of marriage, the relationship between Christ and the Church.

Marriage is based on the consent of the contracting parties, that is, on their will to give themselves, each to the other, mutually and definitively, in order to live a covenant of faithful and fruitful love. (CCC 1662)

The Church takes the lifelong nature of the Sacrament of Marriage seriously. The Church teaches that a break in this covenant teaches goes against the natural law of God:

The remarriage of persons divorced from a living, lawful spouse contravenes the plan and law of God as taught by Christ. They are not separated from the Church, but they cannot receive Eucharistic communion. They will lead Christian lives especially by educating their children in the faith. (CCC 1665)

Marriage Reflects the Holy Trinity
We believe that God exists in eternal communion. Together, Father, Son and Holy Spirit are united in one being with no beginning and no end. Human beings, likewise, were created by God in God’s image for the purpose of communion with another human being.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states, “The Christian family is a communion of persons, a sign and image of the communion of the Father and the Son in the Holy Spirit” (CCC 2205). The Sacrament of Marriage is “unitive, indissoluble and calls us to be completely open to fertility.” Christian marriage at its finest is a reflection of God’s self-giving love expressed between the love of two people.

Contact Us

St. Patrick's Catholic Church
1039 14th Ave
Sidney, Nebraska  69162
(308) 254-2828
​parish@sidneystpats.com
Office hours:
Monday -Thursday 8:00 - 5:00
Friday 8:00 - noon
 

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Join Us for Mass

Daily Mass: 
(No daily Mass if a funeral is scheduled)
Monday -  5:15 p.m. 
​Tuesday - 5:15 p.m.  
Wednesday and Friday - 7:15 a.m.
Thursday - 12:15 p.m.
Saturday- 9:30 a.m. at Sloan Assisted Living ( this is a daily Mass, this is not the vigil Mass for Sunday)
Note: Daily Masses (except Saturday) are celebrated in the Eucharistic chapel. Please use the southwest church entrance.
Weekend Mass:
Saturday Vigil: 5:00 p.m.
Sunday: 10:00 a.m. 
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  • Ministries
    • Children/Youth Ministries >
      • Allelu
      • Advent
      • Children's Liturgy of the Word
      • Totus Tuus
    • Faith Formation >
      • Faith Formation Registration 2022-2023
      • Faith Formation Calendar 2022-2023 K-8th
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      • Sacraments Class Calendar
      • St. Francis of Assisi Blessing for our Pets
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      • Cuaresma
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        • Holy Orders
    • Family Life >
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      • For Teens
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