74. NUPTIALS (Nuptiae). - (See BRIDEGROOM.)
Betrothals and nuptials (1111-1192 [CL 295-314]).
When the period of betrothal is completed, nuptials ought to take place (1157-1160 [CL 306]).
Before the nuptials the marriage covenant is to be made in the presence of witnesses (1161-1165 [CL 301, 307]).
Because marriage regarded in itself is spiritual and consequently holy, it ought to be consecrated and confirmed by a priest (1166-1173 [CL 308]).
After the nuptials the spiritual marriage, which is of the internal man, becomes also natural, which is of the external man, and thus at last full (1173-1180 [CL 310]).
The man after the nuptials is to leave father and mother, and of the sex he is to love his wife alone (1181-1187 [CL 112, 194, 411]).
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