Sentences with phrase «sacramental marriage in»

In the patristic period, marriage was held to be an indissoluable sacrament that transcended death; therefore a person could enter into only one sacramental marriage in a lifetime.

We surmised that «the rules» in these matters must only apply to sacramental marriages in the Church, entered into by Catholics.

Not exact matches

So Protestants in their way degraded marriage by depriving it of sacramental status as a manifestation of the divine personal logos in this world.

In reality, only the death of a spouse dissolves the bond of a sacramental marriage.

So Protestants in their ways degraded marriage by depriving it of sacramental status as a manifestation of the divine personal logos in the world.

But in so far as attitudes among younger Catholics about Catholic sacramental marriages fit into the swath of millennials views, Pope Francis comments miss a lot of nuance.

The shift in our understanding of sex from a sacramental and life - changing encounter to the thing you do with your friends when you're bored has made all of our relationships shallower and made each of us less capable of the profound gift of self on which marriage is founded.

Sacramental marriage points to an underlying marital «communion» that delights in love for its own sake.

Pope St. John Paul II's Familiaris Consortio, for example, communicates an interpretation of the Bible and tradition with respect to the issue of marriage and sacramental discipline in the contemporary Catholic Church: Divorced and remarried persons may not receive Communion (Familiaris Consortio § 84).

«Were we to separate legal and sacramental marriage, it would solve all sorts of problems, not the least of which is the growing discomfort that many of us have that legal marriage is available only to some responsible adults who are in monogamous relationships.»

Of course, it is never fair to criticize an author for the book that he did not write, but the omission of a contemporary presentation of the sacramental model accounts in my judgment for the somewhat skewed presentation that Witte gives of the Catholic theology of marriage.

I think we uniquely offer the marriage of the heart and head in worship, a unique liturgy and approach to scripture, and a sacramental worldview that implicitly cares for creation.

The Church can certainly not give up the principle of the indissolubility of a consummated sacramental marriage, because she is bound by the words of Christ in the gospel, even, despite a single contrary intervention at the Council, in the case of an innocent party.

He went so far as to suggest, but did not develop the idea, that homosexuals who had been ordained were not validly ordained, homosexuality being an «impediment» to ordination in the same way that there may be impediments to a valid sacramental marriage.

In 1999, we are no longer reduced to «guessing» whether he was inspired or speaking only as a man: • adultery has lost its moral significance and become commonplace; • chastity has become a symbol of unhealthy development; • contraception in expectation of fornication is taught to children in the schools; • respect between the sexes has been replaced by mutual exploitation and / or competition; • marriage has lost its sacramental nature and its enduring promise; • statistically, divorce is common, teenage pregnancy is widespread, single parent and serially parented families increase, sexual disease is epidemic, intercourse is recreational, abortion is ubiquitouIn 1999, we are no longer reduced to «guessing» whether he was inspired or speaking only as a man: • adultery has lost its moral significance and become commonplace; • chastity has become a symbol of unhealthy development; • contraception in expectation of fornication is taught to children in the schools; • respect between the sexes has been replaced by mutual exploitation and / or competition; • marriage has lost its sacramental nature and its enduring promise; • statistically, divorce is common, teenage pregnancy is widespread, single parent and serially parented families increase, sexual disease is epidemic, intercourse is recreational, abortion is ubiquitouin expectation of fornication is taught to children in the schools; • respect between the sexes has been replaced by mutual exploitation and / or competition; • marriage has lost its sacramental nature and its enduring promise; • statistically, divorce is common, teenage pregnancy is widespread, single parent and serially parented families increase, sexual disease is epidemic, intercourse is recreational, abortion is ubiquitouin the schools; • respect between the sexes has been replaced by mutual exploitation and / or competition; • marriage has lost its sacramental nature and its enduring promise; • statistically, divorce is common, teenage pregnancy is widespread, single parent and serially parented families increase, sexual disease is epidemic, intercourse is recreational, abortion is ubiquitous.

This is the insight (perhaps often unconsciously known) that is behind the common Christian understanding of marriage as in some real sense sacramental.

Among other significant ways that preliberal Christianity contributed to an expansion of human choice was to transform the idea of marriage from an institution based upon considerations of family and property to one based upon the choice and consent of individuals united in sacramental love.

Here in this relationship is a truly sacramental appreciation of marriage.

While natural law and Augustine's moral theology might be difficult for some, the rules derived from them were understood by ordinary Catholics: Sexual intimacy is permissible only in a sacramental marriage between one man and one woman, and the purpose of marriage is the procreation and education of children.

«It is not clear that divorced people who remarry after a first, sacramental marriage can in no circumstances be admitted to the sacraments as long as they stand by the second marriage.»

When marriage is said to give graces to fight against lust it emerges in its sacramental nobility, for lust is always an enemy of love.

Within this mystery of redemption, as the Pope sees it, the sacramental graces of marriage, sustaining conjugal chastity, have a special effect in achieving the redemption of the body through the overcoming of concupiscence.

The goods of marriage, he says, include the bearing and raising of children in the love of the Lord; the family loyalties of husband and wife, parents and children; and the sacramental unity of marriage.

I also know that due to the statistics, homosexual relationships (and in fact, heterosexual relationships outside of sacramental marriage) are rarely committed.

Even after Christianity was adopted by the Roman Empire in the fourth century, one still had to obtain a civil marriage from a magistrate before presenting himself in church for a sacramental union.

The solution is a return to the pre-Constantinian practice of the Church in which a Church marriage is a purely sacramental matter, subject to the doctrine and disciplines of the Church, but without legal standing.

Solemn and penitential in nature, it was explicitly a concession to human frailty and lacked the signs associated with sacramental marriage (in the eastern Churches, the Crowning, the singing of certain prayers, and the sharing of the Eucharist).

But we can see it in the way in which the exhortation turns marriage into something we aspire to rather than a sacramental reality we can rely on.

In order to create an atmosphere of flexibility and welcome, he speaks of marriage as an «ideal» rather than a sacramental reality.

Missing from this, or perhaps purposely excised, is the Christian understanding of marriage as an institution established by God, a sacramental reality in the Church, ordered to the happiness and spiritual growth of the spouses and to the procreation of children for the good of society.

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Furthermore, the sacrament of marriage itself should hold a high place in the life of the Church since it is the sacramental expression of the relationship between Christ and the Church with a view to the birth of further sons and daughters for the Kingdom of Christ.

Like Jones makes clear in his marriage manifesto: it's so much easier to get into a sacramental marriage than to get out of a legal one.

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