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- LESSON TWENTY-SIXTH: On Matrimony
- Q.1005. What is the Sacrament of Matrimony?
- Q.1006. When are persons lawfully married?
- Q.1007. When was marriage first instituted?
- Q.1008. When was the contract of marriage raised to the dignity of a Sacrament?
- Q.1009. What is the outward sign in the Sacrament of Matrimony, and in what does the whole essence of the marriage contract consist?
- Q.1010. What are the chief ends of the Sacrament of Matrimony?
- Q.1011. Can a Christian man and woman be united in lawful marriage in any other way than by the Sacrament of Matrimony?
- Q.1012. Were, then, all marriages before the coming of Christ unlawful and invalid?
- Q.1013. What do we mean by impediments to marriage?
- Q.1014. Can the Church dispense from or remove these impediments to marriage?
- Q.1015. What is required that the Church may grant, when it is able, dispensations from the impediments to marriage or from other laws?
- Q.1016. Why does the Church sometimes require the persons to whom dispensations are granted to pay a tax or fee for the privilege?
- Q.1017. What should persons who are about to get married do?
- Q.1018. What timely notice of marriage should be given to the priest, and why?
- Q.1019. Why are the banns of matrimony published in the Church?
- Q.1020. What things in particular should persons arranging for their marriage make known to the priest?
- Q.1021. What else must they make known?
- Q.1022. What is particularly necessary that persons may do their duty in the marriage state?
- Q.1023. Can the bond of Christian marriage be dissolved by any human power?
- Q.1024. Does not a divorce granted by courts of justice break the bond of marriage?
- Q.1025. Does not the Church sometimes allow husband and wife to separate and live apart?
- Q.1026. Has not the Church sometimes allowed Catholics once married to separate and marry again?
- Q.1027. What evils follow divorce so commonly claimed by those outside the true Church and granted by civil authority?
- Q.1028. Which are the effects of the Sacrament of Matrimony?
- Q.1029. What do we mean by bearing with each other's weaknesses?
- Q.1030. How are parents specially fitted to bring up their children in the fear and love of God?
- Q.1031. To receive the Sacrament of Matrimony worthily is it necessary to be in the state of grace?
- Q.1032. With what laws of the Church are we bound to comply in receiving the Sacrament of Matrimony?
- Q.1033. In how many ways may persons be related?
- Q.1034. Who has the right to make laws concerning the Sacrament of marriage?
- Q.1035. What do we mean by laws concerning the civil effects of the marriage contract?
- Q.1036. Does the Church forbid the marriage of Catholics with persons who have a different religion or no religion at all?
- Q.1037. Why does the Church forbid the marriage of Catholics with persons who have a different religion or no religion at all?
- Q.1038. What are the marriages of Catholics with persons of a different religion called, and when does the Church permit them by dispensation?
- Q.1039. What are the conditions upon which the Church will permit a Catholic to marry one who is not a Catholic?
- Q.1040. What penalty does the Church impose on Catholics who marry before a Protestant minister?
- Q.1041. How does the Church show its displeasure at mixed marriages?
- Q.1042. Why should Catholics avoid mixed marriages?
- Q.1043. Does the Church seek to make converts by its laws concerning mixed marriages?
- Q.1044. Why do many marriages prove unhappy?
- Q.1045. When are marriages entered into hastily?
- Q.1046. When are motives for marriage worthy?
- Q.1047. How should Christians prepare for a holy and happy marriage?
- Q.1048. How may parents be guilty of great injustice to their children in case of marriage?
- Q.1049. May persons receive the Sacrament of Matrimony more than once?
- Q.1050. Where and at what time of the day should Catholics be married?
- Q.1051. What must never be forgotten by those who attend a marriage ceremony in the Church?