"One of the crucial tasks of the Catholic Church is to help people have a sense of vocation in their lives: the vocation to holiness, to friendship to discipleship and to a particular calling in life. We realize that God is calling most people to the sacrament of marriage. Therefore, this initiative will also help our young people to have a greater understanding of the sacrament and to prepare them better to receive it in a world where fewer people seem to be getting married."

“It is my hope that the marriage initiative will bring about a greater awareness of the gift that Christ has given the Church by raising the marriage covenant to the dignity of a sacrament.”

"For too long marriage has been the overlooked vocation, and yet, it is the
foundation from which all other vocations come.  In the Sacrament of
Marriage, God enters into the life of a husband and wife and helps to make
their love a mirror of the love God has for his people.  In highlighting the
vocation of marriage, we hope to help all people grow in deeper
understanding of the wonderful vocation to which each husband and wife is
called."

"The marriage initiative, “The Future Depends on Love”, is a timely and much needed pastoral project. Its goal is to remind Roman Catholics of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and other people of good will how fundamentally important the institutions of marriage and the family are to the present and future well-being of the Church and society.  As marriage and the family go, so go the Church and society.  For the majority of Catholic lay faithful, the sacrament of marriage is the vocation through which these men and women work out, through faithful, monogamous and fruitful love, their baptismal call to holiness of life.  The true nature and purpose of marriage must be recalled and embraced in a time like our own when so much confusion about this institution and sacrament abounds."