Author Topic: Am I married? (Read 4198 times)

Himagain · « **Reply #25 on:** August 18, 2014, 07:17:57 AM »

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/08/168779-show-stopping-groom-returns-wedding-guests-realize-left-first-place/

Holy Matrimony? Today that seems to occur where the "church", of whatever denomination, is like a movie set for the idealized future memories of secular "christians". May as well record the Super Bowl over it.

poche · « **Reply #26 on:** August 20, 2014, 02:38:38 AM »

If your living arrangemen were to have taken place before the council of Trent or in an area where the decrees of the council wwere to have been unable to have been promulgated then you would have been married.

InfiniteFaith · « **Reply #27 on:** August 21, 2014, 10:54:56 AM »

Quote from: poche

If your living arrangemen were to have taken place before the council of Trent or in an area where the decrees of the council wwere to have been unable to have been promulgated then you would have been married.

I think the Novus Ordo is teaching that marriage occurs between 2 individuals, and that a priest is not required. I suppose once the 2 individuals commit to marriage then preform the marital act they are then married. If I am understanding things correctly.

Dolores · « **Reply #28 on:** August 21, 2014, 12:21:36 PM »

Quote from: InfiniteFaith

Quote from: poche
If your living arrangemen were to have taken place before the council of Trent or in an area where the decrees of the council wwere to have been unable to have been promulgated then you would have been married.

I think the Novus Ordo is teaching that marriage occurs between 2 individuals, and that a priest is not required. I suppose once the 2 individuals commit to marriage then preform the marital act they are then married. If I am understanding things correctly.

You are not understanding things correctly.

In order for Catholics to be validly married, even in the Novus Ordo, they must do so in a church before a priest. The priest does not confer the Sacrament, rather the husband and wife confer it on each other, but the priest witnesses the marriage for the Church and blesses it.

Even though the priest is only a witness of the marriage, Canon Law (even the new Canon Law) is clear that if a Catholic marries outside of the Church, it is invalid; in other words, there is no marriage at all.

poche · « **Reply #29 on:** August 21, 2014, 11:10:21 PM »

Quote from: InfiniteFaith

Quote from: poche
If your living arrangemen were to have taken place before the council of Trent or in an area where the decrees of the council wwere to have been unable to have been promulgated then you would have been married.

I think the Novus Ordo is teaching that marriage occurs between 2 individuals, and that a priest is not required. I suppose once the 2 individuals commit to marriage then preform the marital act they are then married. If I am understanding things correctly.

No that is incorrect. In order for a marriage to be valid the marriage has to follow the proper form as determined by Canon Law. You have to play by this set of rules in order for anybody's marriage to be valid.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_INDEX.HTM