Cle notes

• Matrimony


  Commitment of faithful love, a supreme example of human love
• Matrimony


  • There must be an official church witness, either a priest or a dream
  • It is an act of public worship, a community prayer, bringing God's blessing to the couple
  • Once the couple is married, their home becomes a domestic church
• Matrimony


  1. Takes place during the celebration of the Eucharist liturgy

  2. Part of the sacramental life that makes it possible for Christians to attain eternal salvation

  3. The purpose is to help partners in the life as they work to live in faithfulness to God
• Spouses' love for each other

  Reflects the enduring love between Christ and his church, and provides them with a foretaste of the divine love that awaits them in paradise
• Marriage covenant


  More than a contract, it expresses a relationship between persons, a permanent union of persons capable of knowing and loving each other and God
• Celebration of marriage


  • Appropriately held in public liturgy at church
  • Catholics are urged to celebrate their marriage within the Eucharistic liturgy
• Sacraments


  Vehicles of the grace of God
• When the spouses ask the blessing of God in matrimony

  They turn their marriage into a sacrament