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1634 III. Matrimonial Consent Difference of confession between the spouses does not constitute an insurmountable obstacle for marriage, when they succeed in placing in common what they have received from their respective communities, and learn from …
1635 III. Matrimonial Consent According to the law in force in the Latin Church, a mixed marriage needs for liceity the express permission of ecclesiastical authority. 135 In case of disparity of cult an express dispensation …
1636 III. Matrimonial Consent Through ecumenical dialogue Christian communities in many regions have been able to put into effect a common pastoral practice for mixed marriages. Its task is to help such couples live out their …
1637 III. Matrimonial Consent In marriages with disparity of cult the Catholic spouse has a particular task: "For the unbelieving husband is consecrated through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is consecrated through her husband." 138 …
1638 IV. The Effects of the Sacrament of Matrimony "From a valid marriage arises a bond between the spouses which by its very nature is perpetual and exclusive; furthermore, in a Christian marriage the spouses are strengthened and, as it were, …
1639 IV. The Effects of the Sacrament of Matrimony The consent by which the spouses mutually give and receive one another is sealed by God himself. 141 From their covenant arises "an institution, confirmed by the divine law, . . . …
1640 IV. The Effects of the Sacrament of Matrimony Thus the marriage bond has been established by God himself in such a way that a marriage concluded and consummated between baptized persons can never be dissolved. This bond, which results from …
1641 IV. The Effects of the Sacrament of Matrimony "By reason of their state in life and of their order, [Christian spouses] have their own special gifts in the People of God." 145 This grace proper to the sacrament of Matrimony …
1642 IV. The Effects of the Sacrament of Matrimony Christ is the source of this grace. "Just as of old God encountered his people with a covenant of love and fidelity, so our Savior, the spouse of the Church, now encounters …
1643 V. The Goods and Requirements of Conjugal Love "Conjugal love involves a totality, in which all the elements of the person enter - appeal of the body and instinct, power of feeling and affectivity, aspiration of the spirit and of …
1644 V. The Goods and Requirements of Conjugal Love The love of the spouses requires, of its very nature, the unity and indissolubility of the spouses' community of persons, which embraces their entire life: "so they are no longer two, but …
1645 V. The Goods and Requirements of Conjugal Love "The unity of marriage, distinctly recognized by our Lord, is made clear in the equal personal dignity which must be accorded to man and wife in mutual and unreserved affection." 153 Polygamy …
1646 V. The Goods and Requirements of Conjugal Love By its very nature conjugal love requires the inviolable fidelity of the spouses. This is the consequence of the gift of themselves which they make to each other. Love seeks to be …
1647 V. The Goods and Requirements of Conjugal Love The deepest reason is found in the fidelity of God to his covenant, in that of Christ to his Church. Through the sacrament of Matrimony the spouses are enabled to represent this …
1648 V. The Goods and Requirements of Conjugal Love It can seem difficult, even impossible, to bind oneself for life to another human being. This makes it all the more important to proclaim the Good News that God loves us with …
1652 V. The Goods and Requirements of Conjugal Love "By its very nature the institution of marriage and married love is ordered to the procreation and education of the offspring and it is in them that it finds its crowning glory." …
1653 V. The Goods and Requirements of Conjugal Love The fruitfulness of conjugal love extends to the fruits of the moral, spiritual, and supernatural life that parents hand on to their children by education. Parents are the principal and first educators …
1654 V. The Goods and Requirements of Conjugal Love Spouses to whom God has not granted children can nevertheless have a conjugal life full of meaning, in both human and Christian terms. Their marriage can radiate a fruitfulness of charity, of …
1655 VI. The Domestic Church Christ chose to be born and grow up in the bosom of the holy family of Joseph and Mary. the Church is nothing other than "the family of God." From the beginning, …
1656 VI. The Domestic Church In our own time, in a world often alien and even hostile to faith, believing families are of primary importance as centers of living, radiant faith. For this reason the Second Vatican …
1657 VI. The Domestic Church It is here that the father of the family, the mother, children, and all members of the family exercise the priesthood of the baptized in a privileged way "by the reception of …
1658 VI. The Domestic Church We must also remember the great number of single persons who, because of the particular circumstances in which they have to live - often not of their choosing - are especially close …
1659 IN BRIEF St. Paul said: "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the Church.... This is a great mystery, and I mean in reference to Christ and the Church" (Eph 5:25, 32).
1660 IN BRIEF The marriage covenant, by which a man and a woman form with each other an intimate communion of life and love, has been founded and endowed with its own special laws by …
1661 IN BRIEF The sacrament of Matrimony signifies the union of Christ and the Church. It gives spouses the grace to love each other with the love with which Christ has loved his Church; the …
1662 IN BRIEF Marriage is based on the consent of the contracting parties, that is, on their will to give themselves, each to the other, mutually and definitively, in order to live a covenant of …
1663 IN BRIEF Since marriage establishes the couple in a public state of life in the Church, it is fitting that its celebration be public, in the framework of a liturgical celebration, before the priest …
1664 IN BRIEF Unity, indissolubility, and openness to fertility are essential to marriage. Polygamy is incompatible with the unity of marriage; divorce separates what God has joined together; the refusal of fertility turns married life …
1666 IN BRIEF The Christian home is the place where children receive the first proclamation of the faith. For this reason the family home is rightly called "the domestic church," a community of grace and …
2360 III. The Love of Husband and Wife Sexuality is ordered to the conjugal love of man and woman. In marriage the physical intimacy of the spouses becomes a sign and pledge of spiritual communion. Marriage bonds between baptized persons …