Marriage as a sacrament question

[Scott_D]

I have a question for you theologians out there. When I married my wife in 1994 I was not Catholic or even baptized. I was nothing. We got married in the Catholic Church. I was baptized a Catholic in 1996. Does this mean that our marriage is not sacramental or did it become sacramental when I got baptized in '96?

 

[jmcrae]

I have a question for you theologians out there. When I married my wife in 1994 I was not Catholic or even baptized. I was nothing. We got married in the Catholic Church. I was baptized a Catholic in 1996. Does this mean that our marriage is not sacramental or did it become sacramental when I got baptized in '96?

I’m not a theologian, but I do work with the RCIA, so I know with assurance that your marriage was always considered valid, and it became Sacramental at the moment of your Baptism.

 

[Scott_D]

Yay! I was hoping that was the answer.

 

[Nita]

I’m not a theologian, but I do work with the RCIA, so I know with assurance that your marriage was always considered valid, and it became Sacramental at the moment of your Baptism.

Thanks for this post. (I have a child who was married in the Church to an unbaptized person.) Do you have a reference?

 

[tee_eff_em]

Thanks for this post. (I have a child who was married in the Church to an unbaptized person.) Do you have a reference?

Canon law.

Can. 1055 §1. The matrimonial covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring, has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament between the baptized.

§2.

For this reason, a valid matrimonial contract cannot exist between the baptized without it being by that fact a sacrament.

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