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'Wang 'Wrong Ways of getting 'Warned
Modernism Has Cheapened, Belittled
and Degraded Marriage
Only One Right hind-
their children when it comeslo seeking important mat-
tials, are regularly published marriage There is a right and a wrong way to parish church of bride and groom for some impediments render only make it unlawCatholics, For do most everything. three Sundays prior to the date of the null, while others there is but one right way of getting marriage. The purpose of these an- ful. married, and many wrong ways. More- nouncements is to prevent unworthy Take Some Advice. over, Catholic marriages are lasting- people from marrying secretly. If you are thinking seriously of maruntil death. Therefore, if you marry, With this same notion of protecting ought to do do it properly. the sanctity of Matrimony and its holy riage the first thing you course, Marriage, :which is one of our oldest purposes, the Church has surrounded is to consult your parents. at Of that suginstitutions, is also a great Sacrament the Sacrament with a number of spe- many young people rebeltaking advice, They dislike She has done this by gestion. of the Church. God Himself instituted cial safeguards. their own notions marriage-in the Garden of Eden when instituting certain impediments to mar- and if it clashes with to disregard it entirely. apt "Increase are which Eve, they riage and by pointing out others He said to Adam and Parents are always "old-fashioned" to and multiply and fill the earth." And are God -made. Adam replied, "Wherefore a man shall shall and leave father and mother cleave to his wife; and they shall be r two in one flesh." This holy union which God established in the world, Jesus Christ was pleased to raise to the M.P.S. dignity of a Sacrament. Gold Medalist) businessa serious (Mayhew Marriage, then, is at least for members of the Catholic Outside the fold the marChurch. riage bond becomes weaker almost Pharmaceutical Chemist are daily. Free and easy divorce laws Prescriptions Carefully and Accurately constantly giving way to others even is Dispensed and Delivered. more lax. The marriage ceremonyWe cheapened, belittled and ridiculed. Complete Stocks of Patent Medicines public on performed marriages of read always on hand. stages, in swimming pools, in a lion's 'Phone: B5442. by cage. Thus is marriage degraded by the mad and unthinking world SEE THIS MODERN PHARMACY s about us. FOR YOURSELF. Sacred and Serious. But the Church still looks on marCORNER OF HAY AND riage as something sacred and solemn. of IRWIN STS., PERTH And as the custodian and dispenser the Sacraments, imposing conditions makes she for their proper reception, and enforces certain marriage regulations, the violation of which render the marriage contract unlawful or, in Casome cases, even invalid. Thus all tholics are bound to one definite form present of marriage. According to the are SPECIALISE IN discipline, only those marriages the valid which are contracted before LOCAL TIMBERS parish priest or his bishop, or a priest at delegated by either of them, and rule STATE PRESSED BRICKS least two witnesses. This is a AND a which admits of exception only in very few cases of extreme necessity. by issued was point The decree on this Rome in 1907, and went into effect on Easter Sunday, 1908. In like manner, out of years of exAlso at Country and Metropolitan Yards. perience, the Church has passed other wise and prudent legislation in regard
adopt, it is governed by their genuine love for the young ones. Their sole desire is to see them permanently and completely happy. They should, then, Add to this the be impartial judges. fact that they themselves have been through it all and have had the experience that years alone can give. Surely, their advice must be worth hearing. Whatever you do, don't rush into marriage without any consultation .or without any thought. It is much too serious a business. Don't go into it Think about as a joke or on a dare. it prayerfully, at length, and with calm deliberation.
These impediments are
not
rances but helps to sane marriage. light upon this most as in so many here, They are stumbling blocks only for ter. And yet When Mother Often Knows Best saying, "Mother hasty, ill-advised, dangerous and sinful other cases, the old briefly, legal knows best," still holds good. are, unions. They a mother or true, is it Sometimes, which the Church throws Why the Church Disapproves of Long obstacles are father will take an unjust or unreain the way of those who of Holy Matri- sonable attitude towards the marriage to marriage. For example, the "banns" unfit for or unworthy But, generally Some of these obstacles can of a son or daughter. Engagements . or announcement of the coming nup- mony. speaking, whatever view the parents be overcome, while others cannot. So in the
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Company Keeping. On the other hand, don't feel that a ten-year courtship or some interminable "engagement" must necessarily As a matter of precede marriage. fact, the Church highly disapproves of long enagements. She counsels courtship only where there exists a real likelihood of marriage in the near future. "Marry the girl" is sound advice for a good many young men who seem to think that marriage is only for the old folks. "Keeping company" or "going steady" as it is often inelegantly described, is a practice that must be tolerated for obvious reasons, but at best it is a In many cases dangerous period. temptations are frequent and powerful, and couples who are perhaps very much in love and consider themselves engaged are likely to forget that no privileges are accorded them on that account. When you get married, if you wish to be married properly. know WHY Now, maryou are getting married. riage was instituted by God primarily race-that the of for the propagation is to say, the procreation and educaSuch, therefore, tion of children. should be the chief purpose of all who From this it follows that husmarry band and wife have certain strict obligations towards themselves, toward each other, and towards the children that may come to them. Finally, and this last point is quite important, if you would be married as a Catholic really should, be married at a Nuptial Mass.
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