Marriage is a vocation, inasmuch as it is a response to a specific call to experience conjugal love as an imperfect sign of the love between Christ and the Church. Consequently, the decision to marry and to have a family ought to be the fruit of a process of vocational discernment (no. 72).
-Pope Francis (Amoris Laetitia)
Information and Resources
Are you discerning your vocation? Would you like to learn about the Church’s teaching on marriage?
Here you will find a host of resources to help in your discernment and formation on God's plan for marriage.
For Your Marriage by the USCCB
Church Teaching - Links to information from For Your Marriage
- The Vocation of Marriage
- Catholic Marriage FAQs
- Church Teachings on issues related to marriage
- What did Vatican II Say About Marriage?
Marriage Unique for a Reason
Marriage: Unique for a Reason is an initiative of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Marriage: Unique for a Reason offers resources to assist with the education and catechesis of Catholics on why marriage is unique.
The Vocation of Marriage Is A Couple's Response to God's Call
By Marie Mischel - Intermountain Catholic
http://icatholic.org/article/the-vocation-of-marriage-is-a-couples-response-to-gods-55415791
LETTER OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS
FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO
Apostolic Exhortation - FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO
Pope John Paul II on the role of the christian family in the modern world.
Catechism of the Catholic Church
USCCB (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops)
Marriage: Love and Life in the Divine Plan
A Pastoral Letter of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
AMORIS LÆTITIA
Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation by Pope Francis
"God calls you to make definitive choices, and he has a plan for each of you: to discover that plan and to respond to your vocation is to move toward personal fulfillment. God calls each of us to be holy, to live his life, but he has a particular path for each one of us. Some are called to holiness through family life in the sacrament of Marriage."
-Pope Francis