If that is true, then his second «marriage» was a violation of
the sacramentality of the original marriage and nothing more than an affair (which most people have already pointed out).
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The Sacramentality of Marriage This part of the catechesis is made up of twenty - two general audiences delivered in 1983.
In the second part of the catechesis the Pope considers the application of his adequate anthropology and deals firstly with celibacy for the kingdom,
the sacramentality of marriage and thirdly to love and fruitfulness (a reflection on Humanae Vitae).
The specifics of
the sacramentality of marriage, however, was a developing doctrine until the eleventh century, and as such there was little legal or theological consensus as to what exactly made marriage valid.
«High» liturgy raises doubts about
the sacramentality of creation too.
We find this in the section «
The Sacramentality of the Word», where we read:
[21] We come to see that at the heart of
the sacramentality of the word of God is the mystery of the incarnation itself: «the Word became flesh» (Jn 1:14), the reality of the revealed mystery is offered to us in the «flesh» of the Son... The sacramental character of revelation points in turn to the history of salvation, to the way that the word of God enters time and space, and speaks to men and women, who are called to accept his gift in faith.»
Some months later in 1982, the Pope's catechesis turned more directly to
the sacramentality of marriage.
If it were not still tethered to
the sacramentality of present experience, and to the mystical and active aspects of hope, it could easily pass over the border to an anarchical hatred of present reality.
Furthermore, the religious temptation to flee impatiently from history is also offset by
the sacramentality of Jesus» teaching, especially in the parables.
The properly theological question, treated in the ITC document, is
the sacramentality of the diaconate itself.
Furthermore, it is impossible to understand the Church's teaching about
the sacramentality of marriage without some reference to the modern papal Magisterium that begins with Leo XIII and continues under John Paul II, whose instruction on marriage and family remains one of the outstanding features of his pontificate.
Its ritual absolutes and rules look legalistic, rubric - mad today: but they spoke with a sure confidence of
the sacramentality of life, the rootedness of the sacred not in pious feelings of «spirituality,» not in our heads or even exclusively our hearts, but in the gritty and messy realities of life, birth, death, water and stone and fire, bread and wine.»
Among other controversial teachings of the Church, he developed a much needed line of thought about
the sacramentality of the sexes in the plan of God (more fully outlined in Sexual Order and Holy Order, Faith Pamphlets).
Luther's impatient arguments for the reform of sacramental practice and theology, and his frequent vilification of received usages and opinions, should not therefore be allowed to obscure what might be called his «deep catholic» commitment to
the sacramentality of grace, with its unmistakable Patristic resonances.
Question: So that if the subject were to exclude
the sacramentality of marriage, just as if one were to exclude children, for example, at the moment of the wedding, this could also make the contracted marriage null.
Not exact matches
«Therefore, the Church, with a renewed sense
of responsibility, continues to propose marriage in its essentials - offspring, good
of the couple, unity, indissolubility,
sacramentality - not as ideal only for a few... but as a reality that, in the grace
of Christ, can be experienced by all the baptized faithful.»
As McBrien noted, this powerfully suggests the need to be attentive to justice issues within as well as outside the church This principle
of sacramentality undergirds the statement in the U.S. Catholic bishops» pastoral letter Economic Justice for All: «All the moral principles that govern the just operation
of any economic endeavor apply to the church and its agencies and institutions; indeed the church should be exemplary» (no. 347).
Liturgy, creeds, dogma, iconography, music, and
sacramentality all survived the turmoil
of the Reformation.
It is the doctrine
of the Church» and with it questions
of ministry,
sacramentality, and liturgy» that the essays in this short volume address.
The Incarnation, God becoming present in and through human nature, is the exemplar and foundation
of all
sacramentality.
The concrete
sacramentality and historical relativity in our speaking
of God is, therefore, not a problem to be solved in spite
of our Christo - centrism.
Dillenberger links the evaluation
of images in the history
of British and American Christianity to views on
sacramentality in a way that is most suggestive, but in no way conclusive.
In Fr David Barrett's September 2007 article in this Magazine «The Church and
Sacramentality», he explained Edward Holloway's definition
of a sacrament as «the...
But instead
of Larkin's secular cynicism about traditional marriages, he sharply evokes the shallowness and instability
of the fashionable idea
of «partnership» in a culture now devoid
of sacramentality and deprived
of the Holy Spirit.
However the sacraments are seen as the unfolding
of the
sacramentality which characterises the Church's identity.
In Fr David Barrett's September 2007 article in this Magazine «The Church and
Sacramentality», he explained Edward Holloway's definition
of a sacrament as «the enfleshing...
of an objective gift
of God,... in Christ, enwrapped in matter as befits... the economy
of God who became enwrapt with a human soul and body for the perfection and the beatification
of His creature.»