mixed marriages...

[Azriel]

[quote name='IcePrincessKRS' date='Oct 12 2004, 02:24 PM'] My parents were a "mixed" marriage (haha actually, "mixed" in both senses of the word...). Dad converted when I was quite young... I'm not sure exactly how old I was, I remember him receiving his First Communion, etc., though. Even before he became Catholic he always came to Mass with us as a family. [/quote]
My Dad and Grandfather both converted. In fact, I think they received their first communion together.

[Lil Red]

[quote name='Azriel' date='Oct 12 2004, 01:38 PM'] Lil - if you were married in a Catholic Church, then most likely you were given a dispsensation by your Diocese. Its something that your Priest would request. [/quote]
but i don't know for sure...and why wouldn't they have told me? i mean, i work at the church?

[Theoketos]

[quote name='Dave' date='Oct 12 2004, 01:28 PM'] Yep, they're all correct -- a mixed marriage is between a Catholic and a non-Catholic. [/quote]
Even more so, there is a distinction between marrying non~Christian and a Christian.

[url="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_31121930_casti-connubii_en.html"]On Marriage, excellent work by Pius XI[/url]
[b]
81. This religious character of marriage, its sublime signification of grace and the union between Christ and the Church, evidently requires that those about to marry should show a holy reverence towards it, and zealously endeavor to make their marriage approach as nearly as possible to the archetype of Christ and the Church. [/b]

[i]82. They, therefore, who rashly and heedlessly contract mixed marriages, from which the maternal love and providence of the Church dissuades her children for very sound reasons, fail conspicuously in this respect, sometimes with danger to their eternal salvation. [/i]This attitude of the Church to mixed marriages appears in many of her documents, all of which are summed up in the Code of Canon Law: "Everywhere and with the greatest strictness the Church forbids marriages between baptized persons, one of whom is a Catholic and the other a member of a schismatical or heretical sect; and if there is, add to this, the danger of the falling away of the Catholic party and the perversion of the children, such a marriage is forbidden also by the divine law."[62] If the Church occasionally on account of circumstances does not refuse to grant a dispensation from these strict laws (provided that the divine law remains intact and the dangers above mentioned are provided against by suitable safeguards), it is unlikely that the Catholic party will not suffer some detriment from such a marriage.

83. Whence it comes about not unfrequently, as experience shows, that deplorable defections from religion occur among the offspring, or at least a headlong descent into that religious indifference which is closely allied to impiety. There is this also to be considered that in these mixed marriages it becomes much more difficult to imitate by a lively conformity of spirit the mystery of which We have spoken, namely that close union between Christ and His Church.

[Azriel]

[quote name='Lil Red' date='Oct 12 2004, 03:02 PM'] but i don't know for sure...and why wouldn't they have told me? i mean, i work at the church? [/quote]
That's odd. They must know that your spouse isn't Catholic. If so, then your Priest wouldn't have married you without the dispensation.

I'd be asking some questions Lil.

[Snarf]

My parents were a mixed-marriage, and they left the Church for about the first decade of marriage. When I was six, however, my little sister, my father and I were baptised and have been practicing Catholics ever since.

[popestpiusx]

Wise man, that Pius XI!

[Guest JeffCR07]

amen!

[Jake Huether]

You guys are all so cool. Thanks! I hadn't even thought of that. I guess society has conditioned my mind to think of "mixed" as in races. Makes perfect sence now.


God bless.