Unit 2 Married Life Flashcards
What is Natural Law?
The moral law that can be understood through the use of reason. It is our God-given ability to understand what it means to be in right relationship with God, other people, the world, and ourselves. The basis for natural law is our participation in God’s wisdom and goodness because we are created in the divine likeness.
What is Wisdom Literature?
The Old Testament Books of Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes, Sirach, and the Wisdom of Solomon.
What is Idolatry?
The worship of false gods in violation of the First Commandment.
What is Adultery?
Infidelity in marriage, unfaithfulness to one’s husband or wife.
What is a Covenant?
A personal, solemn promise of faithful love that involves mutual commitments and creates a sacred relationship.
Who were the Pharisees?
A Jewish sect at the time of Jesus known for its strict adherence to the Law.
What does nuptial mean?
Relating to marriage or weddings.
What is a family of origin?
The family in which one was raised as a child, including parents, siblings, extended family members, or others who played a significant role in one’s childhood and youth.
What is Chastity?
The virtue by which people are able to successfully and healthfully integrate their sexuality into their total person; recognized as one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Also one of the vows of religious life.
What is a dispensation?
Special permission to depart from the usual requirements in a given circumstance.
What is Natural Family Planning (NFP)?
A morally acceptable way to time pregnancies based on the observation of a woman’s naturally occurring times of fertility and infertility.
What is a mixed marriage?
A marriage between a Catholic and a baptized non-Catholic.
What is disparity of cult?
A marriage between a baptized Catholic and a non-baptized person.
What is Convalidation?
A wedding ceremony in which a man and a woman in a civil marriage have their marital union recognized and blessed by the Church.
What is Annulment?
The declaration by the Church that a marriage is null and void, that is, it never existed as a sacramental union. Catholics who divorce must have the marriage annulled by the Church to be free to marry once again in the Church.
