When ye murmur and repine under cross and afflictive dispensations, this is a presuming to instruct God how to deal with you, and to reprove Him as if He were in the wrong. Yea, there is a kind of implicit blasphemy in it, as if you had more wisdom and justice to dispose of your lot, and to carve out your own portion in the world. This is upon the matter the language of such a disposition, Had I been on God’s counsel, I had ordered this matter better; things had not been with me as now they are. O presume not to correct the infinite wisdom of God, seeing He has decreed all things most wisely and judiciously.
Thomas Boston

Impediments To Marriage

Impediments To Marriage

IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE

BASIC R.C. BELIEF Diriment impediments are those that render a marriage null and void. They are: solemn vow of chastity, close blood relationship, some adoptions, spiritual relationship (godparent or baptizer), bigamy, extreme youth, impotence or marriage by violence.

These differ from hindering impediments, which make a marriage lawful but invalid, i.e., simple vows of virginity, mixed religion or relationship through adoption.

POST VATICAN II The laws concerning impediments are constantly under review and subject to change; their application also varies from place to place.