Kanoniczne i duszpasterskie znaczenie instytucji zaręczyn

Abstract

Canonical and Pastoral Meaning of the Engagement.

Emerging from  the beginnings of the church marriage law took over the institution of engagement  with the Roman law, describing it in church legal standards, both in terms of the universal  and the particular. The church took over and brought to church law institution  of engagement on grounds of pastoral, seeing in it a factor of religious formation and  preparation for marriage, as well as a kind of protection against the hasty conclusion  of marriage. Engagement does not, however, were never treated as a precondition for  marriage, nor the validity of the marriage was not dependent on previous engagement.  That was then and is now.  Governing Law Church shows the importance and significance of institutions  engagement for marriage preparation, however, does not regulate the form of engagement,  ordering the relevant regulations of the legislator particular. The entity establishing legal  standards in this regard is the Bishops’ Conference, which should take into account local  customs and norms of state law, if the community were identified and legally accepted.  These standards and recommendations of the Polish Bishops’ Conference has issued  Instructions for preparing to marry in the Catholic Church on 5 September 1986. The  role and importance of the institution engagement was strongly emphasized by Pope  Francis in the exhortation Amoris laetitia.