REED: FINALS

Matrimony

- A celebration of the union of a baptized man and a baptized woman who freely give themselves to each other in a lifelong covenant of love

- Typically celebrated during the mass

1. Indissoluble love

2. Sanctifying Grace

3. Procreate and raise new people in the Church Community

Effects of Marriage

Indissoluble

- Only death can break the marital bond of either the husband or the wife

Divorce

- Defined as the legal termination of marriage

Infidelity

- Not being faithful to one's spouse and is a common cause of marital break-ups

Exchange of Rings

- Is a sign of love, faithfulness, and commitment of the couple for/to each other

Giving of Arrhae

- Symbolizes stewardship of earthly possessions

Veil

- Symbolizes the oneness of marriage, and is a symbol of the faithful love the couple have for each other

Cord

- Symbolizes the unbreakable bond of marriage

Bible

- Serves as the couple's guide to a happy married life

Candle

- Symbolizes Jesus in the center of their marriage

Presence of friends and relatives

- Symbolizes the loving support the community will give to the couple in their married life

An Existing Marriage

10 Impediments to Marriage:

- One who is already married cannot marry again while the other party is still alive

Coercion

10 Impediments to Marriage:

- Forcing either party to marry against his/her will

Below Age Requirement

10 Impediments to Marriage:

- Boys and girls below the canonical and legal age (18yrs) are forbidden to take marriage vows

Blood Relationship

10 Impediments to Marriage:

- The church forbids the marriage of close relatives to prevent the birth of physically and mentally defective children

Close Affinity

10 Impediments to Marriage:

- A widow/widower cannot marry the blood relation of his/her dead spouse

Sacred Vows

10 Impediments to Marriage:

- Priests and/or nuns (people who have taken the vows of purity, celibacy, and virginity) cannot contract a valid marriage

Disparity of Worship

10 Impediments to Marriage:

- People who have different religious beliefs

Spiritual Affinity

10 Impediments to Marriage:

- Sponsors in baptism cannot marry their godchildren

Legal Relationship

10 Impediments to Marriage:

- Refers to those who, by civil law, are incapable of contracting marriage because of a legal relationship arising from adoption

Other Impediments

10 Impediments to Marriage:

- For example, Crime

Sexuality

God created _____ as a wonderful gift for His creatures

Sexual union

- When lovingly experienced and sanctified by the sacrament, is a path of growth in the life of grace for the couple

- Is the "nuptial mystery".

Sexual differentiation

- Source of fruitfulness and procreation, and also expresses love, in which the human person becomes a gift

St. Augustine

- He made the distinction between Secundum Naturam and Contra Naturam

Secundum Naturam

"According to Nature"

- only example is Marital Intercourse

Contra Naturam

"Contrary to Nature"

Marital Intercourse

- Secundum Naturam is defined as __________

- The point of reference for all other forms of sexual intercourse

- The act of genital intercourse performed by a husband and wife, often called the "conjugal act"

1. Procreative Nature

2. Unitive Nature

Marital Intercourse two natures:

Procreative Nature

- To give birth

Unitive Nature

- Love and togetherness

Not Secundum Naturam or Contra Naturam

If one nature (procreative or unitive) is absent, the act is considered _________

Pre-Marital Intercourse

- Sexual intercourse between two persons who are in the actual process of deciding whether or not to get married, or who have already made that decision

1. Discernment stage

2. Decision stage

3. Affirmed stage

Pre-Marital Intercourse stages

Discernment stage

- Trying to determine compatibility, including "sexual compatibility"

Decision stage

- Having decided to get married, either Remote (no time frame) or Proximate (with time, date, and place clearly determined)

- Remote or Proximate

Affirmed stage

- Having unequivocally affirmed total and permanent commitment, but not yet publicly ratified it by a legal and/or sacramental marriage, though fully intending to do so

Anti-Marital Intercourse

- Sexual intercourse engaged in a way that directly contradicts the meaning and purpose of the act as an expression of unity and love (e.g., going to a prostitute)

A-Marital Intercourse

- The act is not as patently abusive, selfish, exploitative, or rejecting as anti-marital, and may express something of the meaning of the act, but it falls far short of any expression or remote intention of a fully committed love

Quasi-Marital Intercourse

- Two persons expressing intimacy as though they were married, but without the reality of a formal marriage relationship and no intention of "regularizing," "ritualizing," "legalizing," or "sacramentalising" it

Extra-Marital Intercourse

- Genital intercourse performed by two persons, at least one of whom is married to someone other than the partner with whom the act is performed

Seduction

- One person induces the other to enter into the act by means of persuasion, trickery, false promises, or other forms of motivation, without which the seduced person likely wouldn't have cooperated

Rape

- The use of force is inflicted on the unwilling partner to achieve genital intercourse

Incest

- The partners are related to each other, adding the violation of the sanctity of family relations

- This includes genital intercourse between any two persons related by consanguinity (blood relationship) in the direct line (e.g., parent and child) or up to the fourth degree of the collateral line (e.g., brother-sister, first cousins

Adultery

- One or both of the partners in the act of genital intercourse is married to someone other than the one with whom the act is performed

Sodomy

- Anal coitus or intercourse

Fellatio

- Oral contact with the genitals of the male

- a.k.a Blowj*b

Cunnilingus

- Oral contact with the genitals of the female

- Clitlicking or something

Mutual Masturbation

Two persons bringing each other to sexual climax by mutual genital manipulation

Pedophilia

Sexual activity of an older person with a child