Marriage
The Catechism of the Catholic Church on Matrimony"The intimate community of life and love which constitutes the married state has been established by the Creator and endowed by him with its own proper laws. . . . God himself is the author of marriage." The vocation to marriage is written in the very nature of man and woman as they came from the hand of the Creator. Marriage is not a purely human institution despite the many variations it may have undergone through the centuries in different cultures, social structures, and spiritual attitudes. These differences should not cause us to forget its common and permanent characteristics. Although the dignity of this institution is not transparent everywhere with the same clarity, some sense of the greatness of the matrimonial union exists in all cultures. "The well-being of the individual person and of both human and Christian society is closely bound up with the healthy state of conjugal and family life." (CCC 1603)
USCCB Marriage Handout
Videos on Matrimony
Early Church Fathers on Marriage
Scripture - MarriageMarriage brings challenge of unity, love, and holiness
Dignity of Marital Love
Marriage is image of Christ and His Church
Divorce and re-marriage allowed in Old Law
Deuteronomy 24:1-4
When a man, after marrying a woman and having relations with her, is later displeased with her because he finds in her something indecent, and therefore he writes out a bill of divorce and hands it to her, thus dismissing her from his house: if on leaving his house she goes and becomes the wife of another man, and the second husband, too, comes to dislike her and dismisses her from his house by handing her a written bill of divorce; or if this second man who has married her, dies; then her former husband, who dismissed her, may not again take her as his wife after she has become defiled. That would be an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring such guilt upon the land which the LORD, your God, is giving you as a heritage. Divorce and re-marriage forbidden in the New Law
Prohibition against divorce and re-marriage
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CATECHISMArticle 7 THE SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY
I. Marriage in God's Plan II. The Celebration of Marriage III. Matrimonial Consent IV. The Effects of the Sacrament of Matrimony V. The Goods and Requirements of Conjugal Love VI. The Domestic Church IN BRIEF CANON LAWTITLE VII. MARRIAGE (Cann. 1055 - 1165)
CHAPTER I. PASTORAL CARE AND THOSE THINGS WHICH MUST PRECEDE THE CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE CHAPTER II. DIRIMENT IMPEDIMENTS IN GENERAL CHAPTER III. SPECIFIC DIRIMENT IMPEDIMENTS CHAPTER IV. MATRIMONIAL CONSENT CHAPTER V. THE FORM OF THE CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE CHAPTER VI. MIXED MARRIAGES CHAPTER VII. MARRIAGE CELEBRATED SECRETLY CHAPTER VIII. THE EFFECTS OF MARRIAGE CHAPTER IX. THE SEPARATION OF SPOUSES Art. 1. DISSOLUTION OF THE BOND Art. 2. SEPARATION WITH THE BOND REMAINING CHAPTER X. THE CONVALIDATION OF MARRIAGE Art. 1. SIMPLE CONVALIDATION Art. 2. RADICAL SANATION |
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