Chapter Three: On the Sacrament of Marriage:Part Two On Marriage
O Venerable Pope John Paul II; with your intercession; please help me to write on
Marriage to teach the non-Catholics what marriage is and how it be? Also let the Catholics wake up when they read this. I also ask for Cardinal Newman's intercession as well. If it is with the accord of God's Holy Will. Amen.
Writing
I've done a good study on the Sacrament of Marriage but I want to see if I can open it up more and help teach about it. You can't learn if I do not teach and so I will try my best to open your eyes to show why Marriage is a Sacrament and Marriage is only between Man and Woman. Why you must be pro-life as well.
Let me list the Scripture and I will give you the qoutes and talk about them.
Part One of the discussion
(cf. Mt 19:8; Mk 10:6-9)
(Eph. 5:22-23)
(Gen 2:24)
Mt. 19:8
"He said to them, "Because of the hardness of your hearts Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so."
What is Jesus saying? He is replying to the jews who said that they were allowed to divorce their wife but they do not know what God said at the start; is the same problem we have today; divorce. People are taking divorce like it is popular and going out of style. But God said, let nothing man made come between the man and woman; because it is put together by God. When you get a divorce; you are still married. Because divorce is man made; it can not break up what God has joined. Yes, there is a time when divorce is necessary; when the man cheats on his wife or beats up on his wife. Or if the wife is cheating on the husband. Or if the children are endanger; then divorce is necessary. But, you must file for annulement; which is to erase the marriage; where it never happened.
Marriage is God made; not man made. When we turn a wedding into something flashy or showy; what are we doing? We are defiling what is holy and sacred. Marriage is when you and your husband stand together and the priest or deacon;both must be valid; a hetero-sexual man and ordained by a valid Bishop; the man and woman must be in good standings with the Church; must be free from all Mortal Sin and not excommunicated. The priest or deacon must not be excommunicated.
A wedding can not take place outside, can not take place in another building or a protestant church or a jewish place of worship. It can not take place in a house. It must take place in a Catholic church; where the Sacraments are celebrated. The groom and his best men are to be dressed modestly; clean shaved; hair cut. The bride and her maids must be dressed properly and modestly. The people who come must look proper and dressed modest. The choir and altar servers; should be dressed properly. Because the church is the House of God; House of the King of Kings.
"Can. 1108 1. Only those marriages are valid which are contracted before the local ordinary, pastor, or a priest or deacon delegated by either of them, who assist, and before two witnesses according to the rules expressed in the following canons and without prejudice to the exceptions mentioned in cann. 144, 1112, 1, 1116, and 1127, 1-2.
2. The person who assists at a marriage is understood to be only that person who is present, asks for the manifestation of the consent of the contracting parties, and receives it in the name of the Church.
Can. 1109 Unless the local ordinary and pastor have been excommunicated, interdicted, or suspended from office or declared such through a sentence or decree, by virtue of their office and within the confines of their territory they assist validly at the marriages not only of their subjects but also of those who are not their subjects provided that one of them is of the Latin rite.
Can. 1110 By virtue of office, a personal ordinary and a personal pastor assist validly only at marriages where at least one of the parties is a subject within the confines of their jurisdiction."
"MARRIAGE (Cann. 1055 - 1165)
Can. 1055 1. The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring, has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament between the baptized.
2. For this reason, a valid matrimonial contract cannot exist between the baptized without it being by that fact a sacrament."
Mk. 10:6-9
"But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother (and be joined to his wife), and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh.
Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate."
God Our Father; gave us the Sacrament of Marriage; when He made man and woman and then the two became man and wife. It goes on in detail; where the man leaves his mother and father and so does the woman; they are joined together and become one flesh. How do they become one flesh? By making a child. After 75 to 300 days after the marriage; it says in Canon Law; if a child is created and born; the Marriage act is legitimately completed; but if no child can be created or born; the couple can adopt a child and many have done this.
Marriage is a Sacrament; which only man and woman can take part in. Why? I am not hating on homo-sexuals. They in themselves are not sin but a child of God. But in their action is sin. They are called to live a hard life of being single and chaste; like a priest or a nun or a monk. Not in a habit but by following one of their vows; living a chaste life. Also, they can not reproduce the natural way. Yes they can inject the stuff into them and so they can have a child; but that is un-natural and morally wrong. Why? Because God did not create us to do that; he created us to have a partner; if we were called to be married. If you are a man; you were made to have a bride; a woman and if you are a woman; you were made to have a husband; a man. Both physical and spiritually.
Man and Woman; when they are married in the eyes of God in the Church and later on they become one flesh when the reproduce when they create a child. This is why marriage is for Man and Woman and not Man and Man or Woman and Woman. Getting married to the equal person is not natural and you go against the natural order. You go against God. Which means you sin; the sin of Adam and Eve and Satan and the bad Angels.
Ephesians 5:22-23
"Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord.
For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior of the body."
Now, I know the militant feminist who are going nuts about this; saying this is sexist or anti-woman. Let me remind you, the Church is a woman, the Queen of Heaven, Earth, Universe is a woman. The Church is very women friendly; because the Church is a mother and a bride. When we had these wonderful great nuns who taught my Catechism teachers when they were kids; they taught the faith and showed what a woman should be and in a spiritual mother also.
Yes, the bride must be faithful to the husband and do what is accord to God's Will and nothing sinful; unless it deals with reproducing. Which is not abortion or contraception or tying the tubes. Reproducing is making children to let them live.
The Husband must also be faithful to the wife and love the wife; just like Christ loves the Church; His Bride. How did Jesus show His love for the Church? By dying on the Cross. The Husband must give of himself and sacrifice himself like Christ for the family and if it calls for him to give up his life to protect his bride and family; he must do it. This is what St. Paul is talking about. The Husband must be in favor of more children and not using contraceptions or abortions; because it will lead to murder and is murder; plain and simple.
Finally, Genesis 2:24
"That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body."
What have I been talking about most of the time? When the man and woman is married in a state of grace and in the Church; by a valid priest or deacon; where the Mass is celebrated; then after the wedding and reception; they go and start becoming one body. What is One Body? Having a Child. Because you take part of the Man and Part of the Woman; to make one body once again; the child. Just like God; taking a rib from Adam and making the woman; Eve. They become One.
Amen.
Chapter Three: On the Sacrament of Marriage:Part Two On Marriage
By: Andy
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