Marriage


  1. Cite Paul's most famous exhortation concerning marriage.

  2. True or false. The meaning, nature, and essential attributes of marriage can change depending upon those cultures or societies in which marriage takes place, or upon the intentions of the individuals who desire to marry each other.

  3. True or false. The grace of the sacrament of marriage derives from the love of Christ for his Church.

  4. True or false. The indispensable element which makes a marriage is the consent of the spouses.

  5. Why is it deemed necessary that a Christian marriage take place before a minister and witnesses?
    Choose any combination of the following.

    1. It expresses the ecclesial reality of the marriage.
    2. Without a minister and witnesses, no true marriage can take place.
    3. As a liturgical act, it should be done in the Church's public liturgy.
    4. It brings the marriage into an ecclesial realm in which there are rights and duties in the Church between spouses and toward the children.
    5. The public character gives a certainly to the fact that a marriage has taken place, and helps the spouses remain faithful to it.

  6. Which of the following are elements essential to a valid sacramental marriage?
    Choose any combination of the following.

    1. Unity
    2. Birth of children
    3. Indissolubility
    4. Openness of all marital acts to the possibility of children.
    5. Fidelity

  7. True or false. The remarriage of a person divorced from a living, lawful spouse is not an obstacle to the reception of Holy Communion.

  8. True or false. Because the Church is called the "family of God," we can therefore refer to the family as the "domestic church."

  9. True or false. Christ's presence at the wedding feast at Cana is a sign of the goodness of marriage.

  10. True or false. Church teaching on virginity for the sake of the Kingdom denigrates the good of marriage.

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