Is it a sacrament?

[MarielenaMontes]

I will be getting married soon to a catholic that has had a marriage annulment. This is my first time getting married, and I want to know if we will be receiving the sacrament of marriage or just a blessing since my fiance already received the sacrament.
I posted this before, but I am new at this and I don’t know if I did it right the first time.
Thanks,
Marielena

 

[WanderAimlessly]

I will be getting married soon to a catholic that has had a marriage annulment. This is my first time getting married, and I want to know if we will be receiving the sacrament of marriage or just a blessing since my fiance already received the sacrament.
I posted this before, but I am new at this and I don’t know if I did it right the first time.
Thanks,
Marielena

Since the marriage was annulled, it did not happen. Therefore there is no impediment to getting married.

 

[puzzleannie]

I will be getting married soon to a catholic that has had a marriage annulment. This is my first time getting married, and I want to know if we will be receiving the sacrament of marriage or just a blessing since my fiance already received the sacrament.
I posted this before, but I am new at this and I don’t know if I did it right the first time.
Thanks,
Marielena

this should be covered in your first interview with the priest or deacon who will be directing your marriage preparation. A Catholic whose previous marriage has been declared null by the diocesan canon law tribunal has never been validly married before, and is free to marry for what will canonically be the first time (that means, by church law). So yes, you can have whatever style of ceremony suits you, within the prescribed rite for the sacrament of Matrimony.

that does not mean of course that he is free of the emotional, financial and other baggage that come with any prior relationship, and you will have to prudently learn how to deal with that, another topic your marriage prep should cover.

he will be required to provide proof of this at his first interview, and the priest will review the documents, because there may be some prohibition against marrying again, if there was some circumstance surrounding the conditions of the first marriage that needs to be corrected. For instance, if the grounds were the couple were too closely related, that situation does not arise in the current marriage so no problem. but if the grounds were say, undisclosed mental illness or substance abuse, the tribunal might very well say there must be proof that problem no longer exists before the person can marry again. I am of course using very exaggerated examples to make the point.

 

[Phemie]

I will be getting married soon to a catholic that has had a marriage annulment. This is my first time getting married, and I want to know if we will be receiving the sacrament of marriage or just a blessing since my fiance already received the sacrament.
I posted this before, but I am new at this and I don’t know if I did it right the first time.
Thanks,
Marielena

If you are baptized with a trinitarian baptism it will be a sacrament. If you are not baptized it will be a natural marriage.

 

[MarielenaMontes]

Thank you for your responses, they were helpfull, but I am still wondering if I can still call it “receiving the sacrament of matrimony”

 

[Nechasin]

Thank you for your responses, they were helpfull, but I am still wondering if I can still call it “receiving the sacrament of matrimony”

Yes, because in the eyes of the Church your fiancee has never been married.

 

[puzzleannie]

as has been stated, yes, if you are both baptized and free to marry, you will indeed be celebrating the Sacrament of Matrimony. for that matter, if two baptized Christians marry (non Catholics who are not bound by Catholic canon law) they also contract a valid AND sacramental marriage, no matter who witnesses it, clergyman or civil official.

 

[Seatuck]

Thank you for your responses, they were helpfull, but I am still wondering if I can still call it “receiving the sacrament of matrimony”

Are you getting married a Catholic Church? If yes and you are both baptized then yes! It will be a Sacrament.