Counseling of this nature may take place at any point during marriage or may be obtained prior to marriage as part of
the Sacrament of Marriage as set forth by the Catholic church.
is the book we have all been waiting for: hopeful, inclusive, practical, theological, honest talk about the complex
sacrament of marriage as both reality to be lived and metaphor to be embodied.
Not exact matches
Furthermore, once it was no longer a
sacrament, control over it passed from ecclesiastical to secular authority, which allowed the introduction
of such measures
as divorce, and ultimately presaged the complete secularization
of marriage.
We have to be able to state that the primary purpose
of marriage as a
sacrament, and
of its bodily union
as an act, is the blessing
of offspring within a ministry
of consecrated love.
Perhaps the deletion
of marriage as a
sacrament has also diverted Christians from seeing
marriage as life in God.
As we settle upon a state in life, some
of us will receive holy orders or embark upon the
sacrament of marriage.
In recent months there has been much discussion
as to what the first Christians believed about
marriage and the discipline
of the
sacraments.
As the successors
of the Apostles, Bishops are the custodians, not the inventors,
of marriage and all the other
sacraments.
The bulk
of this scholarly volume treats the distinctive and different ways that the Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican traditions adapted what the author identifies
as the medieval model; the Catholic tradition, with its insistence that
marriage constitutes a true
sacrament of the new dispensation, thus serves
as something
of a foil for the book's extended argument.
Though he devotes the first chapter to «
Marriage as Sacrament in the Roman Catholic Tradition,» Witte's analysis concentrates principally on the medieval centuries and concludes with some brief remarks on the marriage legislation of the Council of Trent
Marriage as Sacrament in the Roman Catholic Tradition,» Witte's analysis concentrates principally on the medieval centuries and concludes with some brief remarks on the
marriage legislation of the Council of Trent
marriage legislation
of the Council
of Trent in 1563.
Feminists
as a whole, she says, deride all forms
of service or self - sacrifice and «consider any view
of marriage as sacrament or covenant a self - serving deception» that oppresses women — a gross misrepresentation
of many feminist theologians who affirm both
marriage and altruism.
«Even when Christianity includes the natural life in its sacredness,
as in the
sacrament of marriage, the bodily life is not hallowed, but merely made subservient to holiness.»
Basically, what has happened with CST is comparable to what has happened with
marriage and family: We spend a lot
of time talking about contraception and abortion and bioethical dilemmas, and unfortunately we must do so, given the gravity
of these evils and the obsessions
of our day — but
as a result we can fail to see, or at least fail to communicate to others, the profound truth
of the
sacrament of matrimony, which is the foundation
of all the rules and prohibitions.
(It is especially for this reason that a lifetime
marriage commitment is such a powerful
sacrament of God's own character
as promise - keeper.
As much as concupiscence darkens the horizon of the inward vision and deprives the heart of the clarity of desires and aspirations, so much does «life according to the Spirit» (that is, the grace of the sacrament of marriage) permit man and woman to find again the true liberty of the gift, united to the awareness of the spousal meaning of the body in its masculinity and femininity» (TB,348 - 349
As much
as concupiscence darkens the horizon of the inward vision and deprives the heart of the clarity of desires and aspirations, so much does «life according to the Spirit» (that is, the grace of the sacrament of marriage) permit man and woman to find again the true liberty of the gift, united to the awareness of the spousal meaning of the body in its masculinity and femininity» (TB,348 - 349
as concupiscence darkens the horizon
of the inward vision and deprives the heart
of the clarity
of desires and aspirations, so much does «life according to the Spirit» (that is, the grace
of the
sacrament of marriage) permit man and woman to find again the true liberty
of the gift, united to the awareness
of the spousal meaning
of the body in its masculinity and femininity» (TB,348 - 349).
«
As a
sacrament of the Church,
marriage... [is] a word
of the Spirit which exhorts man and woman to model their whole life together by drawing power from the mystery
of the «redemption
of the body».
My personal definition
of marriage goes beyond the government's definition
of marriage, to that
of a religious
sacrament undertaken within the context
of an affirming community
of believers, serving
as a foreshadowing or a demonstration
of Christ's love for the church.
«There is a need to grasp again, refresh and deepen the Church's understanding
of marriage as a
sacrament.
Positively, he concerned himself with the education
of priests in Italy, exhorted clergy the world over to aspire to what he set forth
as the standard for the perfect parish priest, encouraged frequent, even daily Communion by the laity, urged that children be admitted to that
sacrament as soon
as they understood the simple doctrines
of the Church, stressed Christian
marriage and family life, had the breviary reworked to make it more useful and to ensure the recitation
of the whole Psalter each week, and enjoined devotion to Mary.
A second is the Catholic doctrine
of baptism, especially its emphasis on the regenerative quality
of the
sacrament and its possible domestic and political implications, which the Church continues to acknowledge in her codified counsel regarding near - death situations,
as well
as in her use
of the Pauline privilege, which allows for the dissolution
of a
marriage between two non-baptized persons if one
of them should subsequently receive baptism.
Contrast this with the genuine church teaching
of Pius XII: «This anti-Christian hedonism... promotes the desire to render always more intense thepleasure in the preparation and actualisation
of the conjugal union,
as if in matrimonial relations the whole moral law could be reduced to the regular accomplishment
of the act itself, and
as if all the rest, in whatever manner done, remains justified by the effusion
of mutual affection, sanctified by the
sacrament of marriage...» [11] In fact, it would be hard to distinguish Popcak's «One Rule for Infallible Lovers» from the kind
of reduction described by the Pope.
Marriage as a Sacrament The sacramental character of marriage is expressed most clearly in St Paul's letter to the Ep
Marriage as a
Sacrament The sacramental character
of marriage is expressed most clearly in St Paul's letter to the Ep
marriage is expressed most clearly in St Paul's letter to the Ephesians:
Where this imagery
of Eucharist
as marriage is most clear, is also the point at which the Eucharist is most transparently seen
as a
sacrament of unity.
The title
of the article is «The Presence
of Jesus in the Family», and it examines three aspects
of that presence: Jesus presence in the
sacrament of marriage, Jesus presence
as parents take their children to church and Jesus presence in family life at home.
The testimony which follows is from a Christmas letter, and is a very ordinary family witness to the reality
of marriage as a
sacrament.
[26] The Pope confronts the notion
of marriage as the remedium concupiscientiae [27] saying that it must be understood in the integral sense
of the scriptures which also teach
of the Redemption
of the Body and point to the
sacrament of matrimony
as a way
of realizing that Redemption.
As Evangelicals and Catholics, we do not agree on the status of marriage as a sacrament of the Churc
As Evangelicals and Catholics, we do not agree on the status
of marriage as a sacrament of the Churc
as a
sacrament of the Church.