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The Christian marriage.
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The catholic marriage
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Conditions
for catholic marriage
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The preparation.
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Conditions and lithurgy clarified by Benoit XVI
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Christian view on marriage
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Marriage of a catholic with a divorced person.
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The
protestant marriage
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Annulement of a first marriage.
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Mixed
marriage
of a christian
The catholic
marriage.
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The marriage is considered by the Roman Catholic Church as a
sacrament, that is "a visible sign of the
grace of God". In the same way as six others, as are the baptism, the confirmation, the extreme
unction, the confession and the consecration in the priesthood.
It is a sacrament administered by the very spouses, the celebrant being witness. |
It is for that reason that the remarriage of a divorced person, already married
at the church is not possible. However, after the civil remarriage, they can ask one
time of prayer which avoids any ambiguity with the rite of the wedding sacrament. We also can, in certain cases, very rare, ask for the
cancellation of the first
marriage.
The conditions of the catholic
marriage.
The very official conditions are the following ones:
- At least one of both spouses must be catholic (baptized);
- None of the spouses must be connected by a previous valid religious marriage;
- They must be really free in their assent (freedom);
- The man and the woman make a commitment definitively the one to the other (indissolubility);
- They want to persevere in the fidelity of their love for all the life (fidelity);
- They accept the responsibility for having children (fertility).
Papers to be supplied are: the birth
certificate, the baptismal certificate, and the certificate of civil marriage
(in country where it exists)
As
such, the marriage demand a preparation: three meetings in the Center of Preparation for the Marriage (CPM) where meetings between
engaged people, on one hand and married couples, on the other hand. The engaged have to meet a priest to prepare the
ceremony and their married life, and possibly learn, if necessary for the Christian faith. At the end of this meeting, they
draft a
declaration of wedding intention, "a project of life which integrates the commitments"
Conditions
and lithurgy clarified by Benoît XVI
Here
are some points of new liturgies of the
marriage, put down by Benoît XVI on July 2006.
- The fiancés must be baptized and communed to have access to the marriage.
- the exemptions for disparity of
cult will be delivered that after interview maintenance and examination of the motivation of the couple
- the not baptized catholic
person will have to make a commitment to prepare their catéchuménat
- The couples will have to make a commitment clearly has to
raise up their children in the catholic faith
- the preparation for the marriage is
compulsory. It is organized by bishop's palaces and organizations of the priest
hood, in association with the couples (in group, with the celebrant, on several days or over several
months)
- The ceremony is centred with more importance on the commitment of the couple for the fidelity
- The importance of the Saint
Spirit is
rested during the ceremony - The laying on of hands of the celebrant on those of the couple is important, it symbolizes the union of the Church and the couple.
- An exchange of presents with the celebrant will can be made at the end of
ceremony.
- As possible, the decoration can be more discussed for a long time with the
celebrant, who is source of good advice for the couple.
Finally, the celebrant will press on the fact that his role does not stop in the day of the
wedding. He is also a referent in case of conjugal problems, a support in the difficult moments.
Marriage
of a catholic with a divorced person.
you
can see on http://www.divorceinfo.com/catholic.htm
wich give a lot of linkx about this question.
For all other information concerning the catholic marriage, and its liturgy, we can refer to the sites :
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09698a.htm
catholic-pages.com/forum/...
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To have information on the others
countries
you can make a
search on Google, by typing :
Catholic
marriage + requirement + country
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The Protestant
marriage.
The ceremony takes place about as that of the catholic marriage, but the Protestant church does not consider it as a sacrament. The commitment between the couple is concretized by a letter
handed to the minister before the ceremony.
Some good addresses
about the Protestant marriage:
Protestant Wedding Traditions - WeddingDetails.com
protestant marriage questions
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To have information on the others
countries or specific religion
you can make a
search on Google, by typing :
"name of
religion" + marriage + requirement + country
and
for divorced people let's type :
name
of religion + marriage + divorced people
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Annulement of a first
marriage.
The church can accept to declare as nul a marriage, for a neglect in four fundamental pillars of the marriage: fidelity, indissolubility, freedom, fertility.
These conditions must exist from the beginning of the marriage.
Neglect fidelity: that one of the couple hid to the other one a love which lasted before and during their marriage.
Fertility: that woman he hid, that is an infertility or any shape of incapacity to create with him.
Freedom: that he is very young by getting married and that the Church recognizes that his(her) union was not freely chosen but on the empire of a short-lived passion, the other consideration ( family pressures)
Indissolubility: the same principle, the union realized too fast without awareness of the eternal (!) love....
Also, if one
of the two got married only to take of it an advantage (to acquire a nationality, or a title, or a fortune, or only to use his(her) spouse to quench his sexual urges without giving itself for all that to him, or still the one who would continue to live exactly as if he was a bachelor and if the spouse did not exist). All this must be presented to the
Bishop with supporting
evidence, and will be submited to an eclesiastic tribunal...
A complete
information is done, for exemple in : http://www.rcab.org/Information/Annulment/marriage.html
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