1.3 Marriage and History of the Church.pdf

MARRIAGE AND HISTORY OF THE CHURCH LESSON 1.3 GRADE 12 OBJECTIVES Doctrine: To Compare and Contrast Christian marriage to the ancient practices Morals: To discuss the significance of Church wedding over civil wedding Worship: To pray for married couples to become firm in their vows to each...

MARRIAGE AND HISTORY OF THE CHURCH LESSON 1.3 GRADE 12 OBJECTIVES Doctrine: To Compare and Contrast Christian marriage to the ancient practices Morals: To discuss the significance of Church wedding over civil wedding Worship: To pray for married couples to become firm in their vows to each other PRAISING GRATEFULLY PSALM 23 The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing lack. In green pasture he makes me lie down; still waters he leads me; he restore my soul. He guides me along right paths for the sake of his name. Even though the valley of the shadow of death, will fear no evil, for you are with me your staff comfort me. You set a table before me front of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil my cup overflows. Indeed, goodness and mercy will pursue me all the days of my life; I will dwell in the house of the Lord endless days. WONDERING JOYFULLY LISTENING REFLECTIVELY MATTHEW 7:21,24-29 KNOWING LOVINGLY MARRIAGE EVOLVED IN HISTORY The institutionalization of marriage started from the ancient societies which needed a secure environment from perpetuation of the species, with a system of rules to handle their property rights, and the protection of the bloodlines. Different period of time and different cultures have different stories when it comes to marriage. Marriage is a union between a man and a woman constituted by recognized social and legal aspects. Therefore marriage is a social institution which imposes and regulates the affective, sexual and procreative relationship of the couples.  Marriage in ancient Rome was a strictly monogamous institution. It is in the law of the Romans that can only have one spouse. Modestinus, a Roman jurist of that time gave a classical definition of marriage. He define it as a union between a man and a woman for life, both by the divine and human law. Marriage was initiated by the transfer of a dowry, a wealth transferred from bride’s family to groom or to his family; while the bride price( or bride’s service) is a payment by groom or his family to the bride’s parents. The giving of gifts was made for economic reason. (to help the new married couple) it was also a symbol of external manifestation of economic contract MARRIAGE DURING THE MIDDLE AGE St. Augustine an influential Church Father, defended the greatness and dignity of marriage against those who ignore the importance of married chastity and dignity of marriage against those who ignored the importance of married chastity and the need of grace in order to live it. He wrote the three fundamental values or “goods” in marriage. He said “Let these nuptial good be the objects of our love: offspring, fidelity, the unbreakable bond… Let this nuptial goods be praise in marriage by him who wishes to extol the nuptial institution.”  These three goods are essential properties which distinguish the marital covenant from any other type of relationship between two persons. To summarize it, we can say that the three goods or bona are: - the exclusive fidelity of the marital relationship (one man and with one women: the bonum fidei); - the permanence of the relationship ( the unbreakable character or the indissolubility of the marital bond: the bonum sacramenti); - And the (potential) fruitfulness of the union (procreative or the openness to having children: the bonum prolis or the “good” of offspring). MARRIAGE DURING REFORMATION At the beginning of the Reformation, the actual practices of marriage remained unchanged except for the growing role of municipal and royal legislators in the jurisdiction of marriage. The first blow against this balanced situation came with the Protestantism. Its revolt against the Catholic Church and Papacy made its minister subservient to temporal princes and so with the introduction of divorce profoundly disrupted that harmony. MARRIAGE IN THE 19TH CENTURY In the nineteenth century, the Church made a counter attack on the usurpation of the state, stressing the doctrine of the Catholic Marriage as essentially a contract- sacrament having full civil rights. The Church radically opposed this conception of civil marriage because no human law against the Divine Law. The church was the authority on marriage in Catholic States even the marriage of Kings like “the marriage of Louis XIV and Marie Therese of Austria. The Catholic teaching on this topic marriage is extraordinarily consistent regarding the rights of the church and the usurpation made by the modern state. Popo Pius IX anathematized the basic doctrine of the Enlightenment in seven condemned propositions.