Raise the Bar on the Sacrament of Marriage

It's time to regain the sacred meaning that marriage must have  in order to be considered a sacrament. The standard of purity that I am suggesting requires considerable discipline, and would likely result in fewer marriages. The upside, however, is that there would be fewer divorces, since the novitiate for the vocation of marriage would be of considerable duration: two years. That is long enough for the initial passions attracting two people together to be brought under the discipline of Jesus' yoke. Nature would help in this regard, since sexual passion has a two-year duration, and after that, if the two were still intent on their vocation, the experience that would grow into a longterm relationship would be solid enough to bear the inevitable pain and suffering that such a commitment involves.