Is our marriage sacramental now?
The short answer
Yes. A marriage is sacramental when both spouses are baptized. Before your baptism your marriage was presumably valid but not sacramental; at your baptism it automatically became a sacrament, with the grace of matrimony to perfect your love and help you grow in holiness.
Both baptized
For a marriage to be sacramental, both spouses must be baptized. Before your baptism your marriage was presumably valid but not sacramental. When you were baptized, it automatically became sacramental.
What that means
The Catechism teaches that Christian spouses have their own special gifts in the people of God. The grace proper to matrimony perfects the couple's love, strengthens their unbreakable unity, and helps them grow in holiness in married life and in welcoming and raising children (CCC 1641; Lumen Gentium 11).
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