II. THE CELEBRATION OF MARRIAGE
1621 In the Latin Rite the celebration of marriage between two Catholic faithful normally takes place during Holy Mass, because of the connection of all the sacraments with the Paschal mystery of Christ. In the Eucharist the memorial of the New Covenant is realized, the New Covenant in which Christ has united himself for ever to the Church, his beloved bride for whom he gave himself up. It is therefore fitting that the spouses should seal their consent to give themselves to each other through the offering of their own lives by uniting it to the offering of Christ for his Church made present in the Eucharistic sacrifice, and by receiving the Eucharist so that, communicating in the same Body and the same Blood of Christ, they may form but "one body" in Christ.
1622 "Inasmuch as it is a sacramental action of sanctification, the liturgical celebration of marriage . . . must be, per se, valid, worthy, and fruitful." It is therefore appropriate for the bride and groom to prepare themselves for the celebration of their marriage by receiving the sacrament of penance.
1623 According to Latin tradition, the spouses as ministers of Christ's grace mutually confer upon each other the sacrament of Matrimony by expressing their consent before the Church. In the tradition of the Eastern Churches, the priests (bishops or presbyters) are witnesses to the mutual consent given by the spouses, but for the validity of the sacrament their blessing is also necessary.
1624 The various liturgies abound in prayers of blessing and epiclesis asking God's grace and blessing on the new couple, especially the bride. In the epiclesis of this sacrament the spouses receive the Holy Spirit as the communion of love of Christ and the Church. The Holy Spirit is the seal of their covenant, the ever available source of their love and the strength to renew their fidelity.
Ignoring Catholic Church doctrine, Bergoglio married a civilly-married husband and wife with two daughters on a domestic flight within Chile [2]. The Irish Times article entitled Pope performs impromptu mid-flight marriage ceremony dated January 18, 2018, stated that "[t]he Catholic church’s view that civil wedding ceremonies are not valid, and therefore the couple’s two children, Rafaella, six, and Isabella, three, were born out of wedlock, appears to have been glossed over." [3] Along these similar lines, Crux quoted a tweet in its article entitled Conservatives criticize pope’s impromptu airborne wedding dated January 20, 2018, [4]:
“Do you know what’s a ‘marriage’ ripe for annulment?” tweeted the traditionalist blog Rorate Caeli. “One celebrated apparently on a whim in an airplane whose celebrant cannot even be sure if parties are validly baptized.”
Is the tweet a criticism, or is it a statement of truth in the form of a riddle? If it can be deemed as a criticism, is it limited only to "conservatives," thereby precluding any possibility that those who consider themselves to be "liberals" from voicing their opinions differently on the tweet? Is there a "liberal god" who can speak on behalf of all liberals at all times on all issues, taking away their Free Will to be able to arrive at their own individual conclusions? If there is, then is this "liberal god" a "Satanic god" that wants to destroy man, God's creation, and Free Will, God's gift to man, since "man" cannot be without his Free Will?
An element that is missing from both articles is any mention of the absence of Christ in the marriage, repeating the words from the Catechism of the Catholic Church quoted above: "In the Eucharist the memorial of the New Covenant is realized, the New Covenant in which Christ has united himself for ever to the Church, his beloved bride for whom he gave himself up. It is therefore fitting that the spouses should seal their consent to give themselves to each other through the offering of their own lives by uniting it to the offering of Christ for his Church made present in the Eucharistic sacrifice, and by receiving the Eucharist so that, communicating in the same Body and the same Blood of Christ, they may form but "one body" in Christ." [5] [Emphasis added.]
Where is the Eucharist in this mid-air wedding? The only way that this wedding can be deemed as a union before God would be a wedding before the Son of God, Christ Himself. This did not take place, of course; however, as this blogger sees it, Bergoglio has consistently put himself in the place of Christ, acting as if he were a god but he is acting rather on behalf of Satan, putting aside God.
[1] http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p2s2c3a7.htm
[2] https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/pope-performs-impromptu-mid-flight-marriage-ceremony-1.3360159
[3] Ibid.
[4] https://cruxnow.com/pope-in-chile-and-peru/2018/01/20/conservatives-criticize-popes-airborne-shotgun-nuptials/
[5] http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p2s2c3a7.htm
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