Chapter, Paragraph

 1  9,5|          of betrothal and that of marriage. In the former the man and
 2  9,5|        engagement. In the rite of marriage their union is blessed with
 3  9,5|      betrothal apart from that of marriage. In our day the latter is
 4  9,5|         token of consent to their marriage, and their parents or elders
 5  9,5|    immediately before the rite of marriage. The home betrothal is a
 6  9,5|          of rings.”~ ~The Rite of Marriage.~ After the rite of betrothal
 7  9,5|    proceeds to the actual rite of marriage.~ This rite begins with
 8  9,5|     granted a blessing upon their marriage, chastity, well-favored
 9  9,5|     chastity of their life before marriage, and reminds them that they
10  9,5|       purity of their lives after marriage also. In Greece they use
11  9,5|             After the ceremony of marriage and the blessing, a prokimenon
12  9,5|          Christ’s presence at the marriage at Cana in Galilee.~ The
13  9,5|   Conditions of the Legality of a Marriage.~ Besides the mutual consent
14  9,5| conditions must be observed for a marriage to be legal: 1) they must
15  9,5|           sixth (second cousins), marriage is sometimes permitted,
16  9,5|        obstacles to the projected marriage, the bans are published
17  9,5|     completed and signed, can the marriage ceremonies be performed.~ ~
18  9,5|            The Order for a Second Marriage.~ The Orthodox Church allows
19  9,5|            and also persons whose marriage has been dissolved for one
20  9,5|            occasionally, a third) marriage; but this she considers
21  9,5|  celebration of a second or third marriage does not take place with
22  9,5|      solemnity as that of a first marriage. The prayers at the rites
23  9,5|        that accompany the rite of marriage are of a penitential nature;
24  9,5|        two is contracting a first marriage, the rites are not curtailed.~ ~