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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Church Solemnization of Marriage.?Civil Marriage.? Impediments to Marriage. Marriage is by no means only the affair of the married couple themselves, but, by reason of its far-reaching importance to the whole human race, the affair of the State and of the Church. Though a marriage is determined on neither by the State nor the Church, but only by the couple themselves, yet it can neither be contracted nor entered upon except by means of the State and the Church. Marriage needs recognition and ratification on the part of the State and the Church; it also requires the support and stay of the greater community to give it stability. The State must establish the conditions under which it will acknowledge a marriage to be valid, and children to be legitimate, and must consequently require also that a marriage should be contracted by means of a formal act, to render it known and manifest, and by means of which its actual contraction may be authenticated, a matter often of great importance. The Church, moreover, must, for the sake of its members, take care that no hindrance to the validity of a marriage, e.g. forbidden degrees of kinship or certain kinds of divorce, should exist. And it is by no means to be taken for granted, that the views of the Church and of the State coincide. By reason of the importance of marriage, not merely in a civil but also in a moral and religious point of view, the Church cannot but insist upon its being ratified by a religious act, by the persons who enter into such a contract sealing it as in the presence of God and of the Church, listening to tho commands and promises of God, accepting the intercessions of the congregation, and receiving the divine blessing on a Christian carrying out of marriage. Undoubtedly no express command of our Lord or His apostl...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217188746 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217188745 |
| Weight | 1.02 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 In |
| List Price | $23.37 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 312 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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