The marriage covenant, by which a man and a woman form with each other an intimate communion of life and love, has been founded and endowed with its own special laws by the Creator. By its very nature it is ordered to the good of the couple, as well as to the generation and education of children. Christ the Lord raised marriage between the baptized to the dignity of a sacrament (cf. CIC, can. 1055 § 1; cf. GS 48 § 1).
(Catechism of the Catholic Church, #1660)

Specific times are set for the celebration of Marriage during the year. To allow ample time for preparations, please contact the Parish Center at least one year before the intended wedding date.  Please call the Parish Office at 908-234-1265 to begin the process of scheduling and preparing for Marriage.

"The Bible reflects a notable evolution in the Jewish and Christian understanding of marriage. We can trace marriage from a time when early Isreal hardly differed from her pagan neighbors down to the momentous connection made in the letter to the Ephesians between marital love and Christ's self-sacrificing love for those He has redeemed. Jessu Himself commented how the ancient laws were adapted to Israel's 'hardness of heart (Matthew 19:18)'...Later portions of the Old Testament reflect a growing purification of Israel's ideals concerning marriage. The second account of creation (cf. Genesis 2) indicates that marriage is not just an arrangement for procreation, but that man and woman are made to support each other in intimate companionship. Each completeds the other as they live together and become one flesh. Marriage is a partnership intended by God in spite of the elements of pain introduced by the first couple's sin. In spite of the Law's provisions for divorce by repudiation, the writer of Proverbs urged men to live in loving fidelity to the wife of their youth (cf. Proverbs 5:15-20). The prophet Malachi inveighed against divorce as a practice the Lord hates (cf. Malachi 2:15). If marriage is a covenant, then suddenly a wealth of religious meaning - mutual trust, sacred commitment, God's own fidelity - clusters around the relation between husband and wife...Jesus stood in the reforming tradition mirrored in Malachi...when He laid down the unqualified principle, 'What God has joined together, let no man put asunder (Matthew 19:6)'". (Michael J. Taylor. Sacraments. Alba House Publishers: New York; 1981, 183-185).