Marriage
Please call our parish office at (309) 755-0571 at least eight months prior to proposed wedding date.
Before a date can be confirmed, the bride and groom must contact us about pre-marital preparation at the parish, attendance at a Pre-Cana Conference (or Engaged Encounter) and Christian Sexuality Workshop.
“Jesus said, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh so they are no longer two, but one flesh.’ Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being must separate.”
The marriage covenant between one man and one woman forms an intimate communion of life and love, which has been established by the Creator and raised to the level of a Sacrament by Christ the Redeemer. Marriage is based on the free consent of the bride and groom and their will to give themselves to each other mutually and definitively in order to live a covenant of faithful and fruitful love. The married love of a husband and wife, through the Sacrament of Matrimony, reflects in the world the love of Christ for His bride the Church.