Marriage:

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Chapter 9

• Marriage
• Union in Gods Life

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Key Terms

• Vocation
• From the Latin word for a ___________________, a
  state of ____________ to which one feels called
• Covenant
• A _____________________ between humans or between
  God and humans ______________________________
• _________________
• Having only one spouse at a time
• _____________
• Faithfulness in the context of marriage, not
  having a sexual relationship with anyone but
  ones spouse
• ___________ to growing in love for one another

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Gods Plan in Scripture

• Creation Stories
• God created woman and man _______________________
• Created in __________________
• Deus est Amans
• We are love
• Covenant
• Similar to the bond between __________________
• Expressed in Ruth, Tobit, and the Song of Solomon
• _______________ of the New Covenant set up by
  Christ
• Marriage at Cana
• First sign performed by Christ
• _________________________ efficacious sign of
  Christs presence
• St. Paul
• Ephesians 5
• Christian life bears the mark of the
  _______________________ and the Church

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Marriage as a Sacrament

• Sacrament
• An _________________________, instituted by
  Christ and entrusted to the Church
• Vehicle through which we receive the life of God
  through the work of the Holy Spirit
• Visible, tangible love of God
• Experienced between ______________
• Matrimony
• The Sacrament of Marriage, a _____________________
  __ between a man and a woman
• Two purposes
• _______________
• ________________________________

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Effects of Marriage

• Marriage Bond
• Union of ______________, ________ by God
• _______________
• what God has joined men must not divide
• Grace of the Sacrament
• Intended to ____________ the couples love and to
  strengthen ______________
• Christ as the source
• ____________________________
• Foretaste of Heaven
• ________________________

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Conjugal Love

• __________________
• Attraction, affection, spiritual connection
• Personal unity
• ________________________, leading to forming one
  heart and one soul
• ____________
• Connection to the fidelity of God to the Church
• ______________
• Handing on to their children the fruits of the
  moral, spiritual, and supernatural life
• Parents as principal educators of children

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Domestic Church

• Domestic Church
• Name for a _________________ living out the
  communal nature of the Church as the _______
  _____________
• Each member exercises the __________________
• Making the family a community of grace and prayer
• The setting for the first ______________ of the
  faith to children
• Importance of Prayer
• Prayer unites the family ____________________
  ______________

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Marital Discord

• Divorce
• Declaration by a ____________ that a ________
  marriage has ended and that the parties are free
  to _____________
• Jesus teaching found in Mark 10
• Divorced Catholics
• Free to _____________________
• Not free to ____________________
• Declaration of nullity
• Declaration by a _____________ that a failed
  marriage was never really a ___________________,
  even though people may have thought it was
• Not ________________
• An annulment recognizes that a true
  _______________ was never formed by the two
  people and thus offers the possibility for
  _____________ in the Church

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Rites of Marriage

• 2 Rites
• During Mass
• ______________
• Outside of Mass
• _________________
• Similar themes
• Basic difference
• Celebration and ________ of the Eucharist

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No mas?

• Personal choice regarding to have a Mass or a
  ceremony
• Encouraged in the following cases
• _________________ (Catholic non-Catholic)
• Lack of ___________________ and _______________
• Sacrament still _________ despite the choice to
  have a ceremony
• Priest or deacon may officiate / preside

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Rite of Marriage

• Introduction and Questions
• Sets the mood and inquiry into the
  ___________________, ______________ to each
  other, and the acceptance of ______________
• Consent / Vows
• Mutual statement of ________________ or vows
• Two people themselves marry each other,
  ______________ __________________
• Blessing of Rings
• Ring as a ___________ and fidelity
• Nuptial Blessing
• Asking God to bless the __________________________
  and new life together