RCIA question

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If one of a married couple takes RCIA classes and is received in the church, must their marriage now be “blessed” (not sure of terminology) by the church? And can the couple still have relations? Or are they “put on hold”? Someone asked me this and I went “DUH”??? Because I truly didn’t know.
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If both were non-Catholic the marriage is presumed to be valid and nothing more needs to be done.
 
The short answer is “it depends”.

Presuming they have no prior marriages and their own former denomination did not have any requirements for the “form” of marriage-- or they followed the required form, for example in the Orthodox Church-- then their marriage is valid and there is nothing else that they need to do in order to join the Church nor is there anything they need to do to make their marriage valid.

If they were both baptized already their marriage would be both valid and sacramental. If neither were baptized, or one was baptized and the other unbaptized, and they both subsequently become baptized then their marriage becomes a sacrament.

OTOH, If a couple had prior marriages/divorces or other circumstances, these would have to be resolved BEFORE either of them could be received into the Church. And, yes, that would include ceasing relations and could also include a Tribunal investigation and decree of nullity.
 
I believe that if the marriage was “valid” by the rules of the denomination they are converting from, then there is no need to have the marriage blessed.
 
If one of a married couple takes RCIA classes and is received in the church, must their marriage now be “blessed” (not sure of terminology) by the church? And can the couple still have relations? Or are they “put on hold”? Someone asked me this and I went “DUH”??? Because I truly didn’t know.
Thanks,
Kathy
Was their Marriage questioned? Was an Annulment meeded before the person could be received?

Either they were in a valid Marriage and nothng else needs to be done. Or they required an Annulment process which was returned as invalid. So now they are free to Marry, and so need to Convalidate the Marriage.

Or the Pastor put the cart before the horse so to speak, and it now gets complicated.
 
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