The Sacraments of Matrimony

By M.M. Loviste

Instead of a foreword

Let the woman be untainted, listen to her husband and obey him, a voice grumbles. No, shouts another. He's her slave, she has him under her thumb. Yes, but Paul – the Apostle – is more pacifying: the man shall hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. Not true, the plebeian jumps. Are they still one body when she is cheating on him? Silence, decides the sage. Nobody is right... Then who can tell the truth... Oh, only God knows the truth!

Okay, okay, the voices shout in unison, but the Almighty, what does He say?... He says: It is not good for man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him...

So that’s that. Let's make a helper suitable for him, the woman for him and he support the woman through the Sacrament of Matrimony. Now things are changing. That settles it. Fine, but did you ask the anointed of God? It is precisely they who bind and unbind all kinds of stuff. Perhaps Their Reverences are aware of other sacraments that cannot be disregarded.

Emma and Rick Majore are about to find out and even experience these sacraments on a baleful scorching day, from the saddles of their bicycles. Newly-weds on bikes, acclaimed by the most diverse public, from a group of nudists scattered through the English garden to the ardent fans just out of a match at Allianz Arena. Will the young couple manage to get the coveted religious marriage certificate, thus fulfilling the Sacrament of Matrimony?

• Language: English
• Publisher: M.M. Loviste
• Release date: Jul 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463187968

M.M. Loviste

M.M. Loviste is born in 1956 in Boisoara, Tara Lovistei. After graduating from the Panait Donici Engineering Military Institute in 1979, he works as a sapper leader until 1989, when he is discharged. Since 1994, he has worked for a radio station, and since 1995, for a television channel, where he makes short movies, documentaries, news reports, television investigations, live transmissions, and live shows. From 1996 until 2008, he is the General Manager of the Etalon television station, during which time this station is recognized at national and international levels, especially in the field of short movies. Loviste attends the “Days and Nights of Literature” International Festival in both 2007 and 2008, where he films “The 14th Wave,” a documentary highly praised by the president of U.S.R. (Writers’ Union of Romania). Loviste is also noted for his exclusive interviews with the famed Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko and the 2006 Nobel Laureate for literature, Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk. Loviste’s literature and television activity have brought him numerous regional prizes and distinctions.In 1994, Loviste publishes his first prose volume, “A Cross Too Heavy,” which deals with the Romanian village during the period around World War II. His next novel, “Stolen Identities” (1996), portrays Romanian soldiers being taken hostage in the Soviet Union. In 1997, he publishes “Nessus’s Attire,” a radiography of the period before and after the Communist regime. In his short story volume “The Irretrievable” (1999), the author addresses social issues. In 1999 he becomes a member of U.S.R. In 2001, he publishes “The City of the Last Eclipse,” a satire on the Romanian society after 1989, which in 2008 receives the Vasile Militaru Award from the Writers’ Union of Romania during the second National Festival for Literature and Satire in Pitesti. His last two volumes are republished in 2006 and launched during the Gaudeamus International Book Fair in Bucharest. In 2007, the same books are nominated for the U.S.R.-Pitesti Book of the Year (for prose) Award.In 2009, he publishes the novel “Apprentices of the Word,” a terrible confrontation between good and evil. At stake in this dramatic confrontation is man, to whom God gives freedom of choice. The key to this novel is, naturally, the Word, which is omnipresent and vital to man. The same year, the volume receives the U.S.R.-Pitesti Special Jury Book of the Year (for prose) Award. The Church also recognizes the spiritual and artistic value of the book, the Archbishop of Arges and Muscel, His Eminence Calinic Argatu, awarding it the plaquette of Saint Voivode Neagoe Basarab and the icon of the Saint, plated in silver and gold.Starting with 2012, the author devotes himself for four years to a new novel. “Halacha?” is built on the basis of three literary landmarks: First, the atmosphere in which the greatest act of injustice in the entire history of the human race – the Trial of Jesus – took place two thousand years ago; second, the political games that led to the assassination of Jesus Christ by involving high-level corruption – the terrible scourge haunting humanity yesterday, today and tomorrow – in the process; finally, the presentation of the most unusual form of legal defense of the Son Of God – silence. U.S.R.-Pitesti nominates the book for the Book of the Year (for prose) Award.In 2020 he writes “The Sacraments of Matrimony,” a humor and satire novella on those who mystify the biblical concept of the Holy Sacrament of Matrimony.In 2021 follows “The Inauguration,” another humor and satire novella, offering a radiography of the current society in a provincial town, set against the background of the vices and flaws of the characters.

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The Sacraments of Matrimony

M.M. Loviste

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The Lord knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath. What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust. My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt. Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one living is righteous before you. Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. For the Lord holds a cup in his hand that is full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours out the wine in judgment, and all the wicked must drink it, draining it to the dregs.

From the Book of Psalms

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Sharpen your hearing and wake up your mind, so that you remember. I am the brother of your father only in flesh. Thus was the will of the All-powerful. I pray for you, His servants, to receive forgiveness. You have acquired some learning in a foreign country. Enough to have what to eat and what to dress. Now it's time for you to settle down. But this cannot happen without the Holy Sacrament of Matrimony. Don’t you see the world is brimming with easy women? What do we have to do with them? Our people are untainted, living in the Fear of the Lord. Your duty is to obey. A woman is to submit to her man. Be chaste when she becomes one with him. How else? Nobody has put us to shame so far. Read in the Book of Genesis and find out what the Almighty commanded us. It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him¹… Saint Peter the Apostle himself says: Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh². We are not to do as we please with the Holy Sacrament of Matrimony. The Holy Apostle and Evangelist Matthew also meditates in Bible verse. What God has joined together, let no man put asunder³. The people themselves regard single as lost sheep, as beasts cursed by the Maker, who did not blend in with the community. As long as I live, you have to submit. And when it happens, I will be there, together with the other foreign priests, to officiate the Holy Sacrament of Matrimony also in our mother tongue, so that it is known where you come from.