Day 222: Matrimonial Consent (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 10 August 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Matrimonial consent is an indispensable element of the Sacrament of Marriage. Fr. Mike explains why it is essential for those entering marriage to express their consent freely and why in the Church’s eyes, “if consent is lacking, there is no marriage.” Fr. Mike also guides us through the Church’s teaching on annulment and clarifies why it can be complex. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1625-1632.
This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, |
| 0:09.2 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down |
| 0:13.6 | through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by |
| 0:16.8 | Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 22. We are reading paragraphs 1625 to 1632. As always, I am using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach. But you can follow along with any recent version of the catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own |
| 0:40.7 | catechism into your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash cI. And lastly, you can |
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| 0:50.8 | is day 22 and 22. That is-toes right in a row. |
| 0:54.8 | We're reading paragraphs 16, 25 to 16.32. |
| 0:57.3 | Yesterday we talked about the celebration of marriage. |
| 0:59.2 | We talked about the virginity for the sake of the kingdom, that reality. |
| 1:02.5 | We also, part of that celebration of marriage, we have the matrimonial consent, which is pretty much essential. |
| 1:07.4 | When I say pretty much essential, it's essential. |
| 1:09.9 | When it comes to entering into |
| 1:12.0 | the covenant of marriage, there has to be this consent. And also that consent has to be a certain |
| 1:16.7 | kind. It has to be free, being not under constraint and not impeded by any natural or ecclesiastical |
| 1:22.1 | law. We're going to talk about that as well as just kind of some nuts and bolts when it comes to |
| 1:26.9 | the sacrament of matrimony from |
| 1:29.0 | paragraph 1625 to 1632 so in order to like launch in let's launch in to prayer as we pray |
| 1:36.5 | Father in heaven you are good and you are your God you are the Lord of life and you're the |
| 1:41.4 | Lord of love we continue to praise your name. We continue to thank you |
| 1:45.5 | for this gift of holy matrimony. We thank you for the gift of faithfulness. We thank you for |
| 1:51.4 | even the fact that when we're unfaithful, you remain faithful. Lord God, we thank you for mercy |
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