Religion and Human Relationships Flashcards
Catholic Teaching on family (Pope John Paul II)
” All members of the family, each according to his or her own gift, have the grace and responsibility of building day by day the community of persons making a family a school of deeper humanity. This happens when there is care and love for the children, the aged and the sick; where there is a sharing of goods, of joys and of sorrows”
Church of England teaching on marriage equality
“It is the quality of relationship irrespective of the form of relationship (parents, women as mothers, men as fathers, childless couples, single people, cohabitees and gay and lesbian couples) which the Church should endorse if the Church is to continue to offer a place of acceptance for hurting people where they can find wholeness”
Ephesians 5:22-24- quote on roles of men and women in a marriage
“For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. Husband’s ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself”
Galatians 2:28- quote on gender roles and equality
“There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus”
Exodus 20:12 - 10 commandments- quote on family
“Honour your father and your mother”
Proverbs 23:22- quote on family
“Listen to your Father who gave you life and do not despise your mother when she is old”
1 Timothy 5:8- quote on family
“If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever”
Proverbs 29:17- quote on family
“Discipline your son, and he will give you peace; he will bring delight to your soul”
The PURPOSE of marriage
Procreation - having children
Union - a loving partnership of living together
Rearing children - providing nurture & security
Pattern for society - family unit of mutual support
One flesh - sexual intimacy
Sacred - blessed by God
Eternal - lifelong faithful relationship
In many churches, such as the Catholic church and CofE, marriage is seen as…
a gift from God
The 6 main elements of a CofE wedding ceremony
- Introduction explains Christian marriage. Questions asked to ensure the marriage is legal.
- Vows – promises which the bride and groom make committing themselves to one another.
- Rings – exchanged.
- Official statement for the bride and groom are now married.
- Prayers and blessings for the couple and then for the whole congregation.
- Signing of the marriage register, and receiving of the marriage certificate – a legal requirement
The CofE marriage vows
I, …, take you,…, to be my wife [or husband], to have and to hold from this day forward; for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish [and worship/obey], till death us do part, according to God’s holy law; and this is my solemn vow
Genesis 2:21-24- quote on marriage
Adam said, ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called “woman”, for she was taken out of a man.’ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh”
Exodus 20: 14 - 10 Commandments- quote on marriage/ cheating
“You shall not commit adultery”
Malachi 2:15- quote on divorce
“I hate divorce, says the Lord”
