Adult Formation Session, June 12 -- Q&A on Marriage (Series on Marriage, Part 6 of 6)

A final session on the theology of marriage in Scripture and in the Church. Q&A format, with concluding reflection on the most controversial matter in the Church today - Why those in an irregular "marriage" (example, divorced and remarried) must be refused communion if they present themselves.


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Adult Faith Formation, June 5 - Marriage and Celibacy (Series on Marriage, Part 5 of 6)

Objectives of Session 5 – Marriage and Celibacy

1) To know the key teachings of our Lord about virginity

2) To appreciate the Church’s magisterial teachings about celibacy

3) To be able to defend the Church’s discipline of clerical celibacy

Adult Faith Formation, May 29 -- Matrimonial Consent and Indissolubility (Series on Marriage, Part 4 of 6)

Objectives of Session 4 – Matrimonial Consent and Indissolubility

1) To recognize what is required for valid marital consent

2) To appreciate the four “marriage scenarios”  

3) To understand why all marriages are intrinsically indissoluble although some are extrinsically dissoluble

4) To be able to explain the difference between an annulment and a divorce

Adult Faith Formation, May 22 -- Marriage in Scripture (Series on Marriage, part 3 of 6)

Objectives of Session 3 – Marriage in Scripture

1) To recognize the teaching of marriage present in the creation account

2) To be able to account for polygamy and divorce in the Old Testament

3) To appreciate the New Testament teachings on marriage and virginity

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Adult Faith Formation, May 8 -- Marriage and Family Life (Series on Marriage, Part 2 of 6)

Objectives of Session 2 – Marriage and Family Life

1) To appreciate the teachings of the Council of Trent on Marriage

2) To recognize the “natural inclination” of all men toward marriage

3) To articulate the blessings and ends of marriage

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Adult Faith Formation, May 1 -- Introduction to Marriage (Series on Marriage, Part 1 of 6)

Objective of Session 1, Introduction to Marriage

1) To recognize that marriage is a natural institution as well as a sacrament

2) To see that even outside of the Church, marriage falls under certain principles of natural law

3) To appreciate that all marriage (even non-sacramental marriage) must be freely chosen, permanent, exclusive, and open to life

4) To recognize that the Church accepts the natural marriages of non-baptized persons

5) To recognize that two baptized persons cannot enter into a merely natural marriage, but only a sacramental marriage