Friday, April 7, 2017
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 268 - Part II.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) For Catholic believers, to enter into and live in marriage
with a person who belongs to another religion can cause difficulties for their
own faith and for their future children. Given her responsibility for the
faithful, the Church has therefore established the impediment of disparity of
religion. Such a marriage can therefore be contracted validly only if a
dispensation from this impediment is obtained before the wedding. The marriage
is not sacramental.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC 844) In their religious behavior, however, men also display
the limits and errors that disfigure the image of God in them: Very often,
deceived by the Evil One, men have become vain in their reasonings, and have
exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and served the creature rather than the
Creator. Or else, living and dying in this world without God, they are exposed
to ultimate despair (LG 16; cf. Rom 1:21, 25).
Reflecting and meditating
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 845) To reunite all his children, scattered and led astray
by sin, the Father willed to call the whole of humanity together into his Son's
Church. The Church is the place where humanity must rediscover its unity and
salvation. The Church is "the world reconciled." She is that bark
which "in the full sail of the Lord's cross, by the breath of the Holy
Spirit, navigates safely in this world." According to another image dear
to the Church Fathers, she is prefigured by Noah's ark, which alone saves from
the flood (St. Augustine, Serm. 96, 7, 9: PL 38, 588; St. Ambrose,
De virg. 18, 118: PL 16, 297B; cf.
already 1 Pet 3:20-21).
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