What is the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony?
The sacrament of Marriage is where a couple vows to devote themselves entirely to each other. Each spouse will now help each other reach heaven, in holiness and happiness in Christ. From this sacrament, the two become "one-flesh" in a perpetual and exclusive covenant partnership, receiving free, total, fruitful, and faithful love.
Who is the Minister of Marriage?
The minister's of Matrimony are the bride and groom with the clergy as a witness for the Church.
The sacrament of Marriage is where a couple vows to devote themselves entirely to each other. Each spouse will now help each other reach heaven, in holiness and happiness in Christ. From this sacrament, the two become "one-flesh" in a perpetual and exclusive covenant partnership, receiving free, total, fruitful, and faithful love.
Who is the Minister of Marriage?
The minister's of Matrimony are the bride and groom with the clergy as a witness for the Church.
Who can enter into Holy Matrimony and how often?
The bride and groom both must be baptized without any impediments to enter into the sacrament of marriage. You may marry once and to one spouse as long as that spouse is living. If one spouse dies, the other spouse may validly remarry.
What is the Form of this Sacrament?
The bride/groom will say the words: "I ______, take you, ______, to be my wife/husband. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honor you all the days of my life."
The bride and groom both must be baptized without any impediments to enter into the sacrament of marriage. You may marry once and to one spouse as long as that spouse is living. If one spouse dies, the other spouse may validly remarry.
What is the Form of this Sacrament?
The bride/groom will say the words: "I ______, take you, ______, to be my wife/husband. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honor you all the days of my life."
What is the Matter of this Sacrament?
The matter for marriage is mutual consent to live together as husband and wife in the marriage covenant and consummation of the sacrament.
What is the Rite for this Sacrament?
The rite (ceremony) of matrimony typically occurs during a normal mass. After the mass occurs the Statement of Intentions, Declaration of Consent(Exchange of Marriage Vows), Blessing and Exchange of the rings, and finally the Nuptial Blessing.
The matter for marriage is mutual consent to live together as husband and wife in the marriage covenant and consummation of the sacrament.
What is the Rite for this Sacrament?
The rite (ceremony) of matrimony typically occurs during a normal mass. After the mass occurs the Statement of Intentions, Declaration of Consent(Exchange of Marriage Vows), Blessing and Exchange of the rings, and finally the Nuptial Blessing.
Ecclesiastes: 4:9-12
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up. Again, if two lie together, they are warm; but how can one be warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him.
This reading is very important to me because it shows the covenant partnership of man and woman. The two are now dependent on each other and will help the other find true happiness with Christ to be able to enter heaven. The man and woman form a special bond of free and faithful love.
Matthew 19:4-6
Jesus says: “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning “made them male and female,’ and said, “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 then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
This reading is very important to me because it shows that the love the man and woman have for each other cannot be separated. They will always honor the other and stay with them through bad times. The man and woman will keep the promises they made to the other and will stay true to each other, for they are united under one flesh.
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up. Again, if two lie together, they are warm; but how can one be warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him.
This reading is very important to me because it shows the covenant partnership of man and woman. The two are now dependent on each other and will help the other find true happiness with Christ to be able to enter heaven. The man and woman form a special bond of free and faithful love.
Matthew 19:4-6
Jesus says: “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning “made them male and female,’ and said, “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 then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
This reading is very important to me because it shows that the love the man and woman have for each other cannot be separated. They will always honor the other and stay with them through bad times. The man and woman will keep the promises they made to the other and will stay true to each other, for they are united under one flesh.