Platonic Marriage: Ab initio

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To those in married life, how many of you married your spouse primarily out of suitability (they’d be a good parent, good provider/homemaker, etc.) instead of romantic love? To those to which the previous applies, did romantic love grow over time along with mature (called “agape”) love?
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I wouldn’t say it was one or the other. More like a mix of both. I guess first came an initial attraction and a spark of romance, then a deeper knowledge of the person, a kind of increase of romance, and that gradually developed into a stronger friendship, where suitability and “compatibility” seemed very obvious.
 
If I’m not mistaken, Holy Matrimony is a sacrament mutually made by the spouses to each other. It would make it the only sacrament ordinarily performed by lay people.

Being the only sacrament performed by a lay person, it better be the truest words that one would make!
 
This is true in the Latin rite but it is not true in every Catholic rite. For example, in some eastern rites the priest administers the sacrament to the couple. This is why if a Latin Catholic wishes to marry a Catholic from an eastern rite in the Latin rite, a priest must ordinarily preside.
 
Well, any person may baptize.

There are perfectly valid natural marriages that are not Sacramental as well 🙂
 
Yes, but in emergency situations. Not usually pleasant but thanks be to God that we can
 
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