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Rev. Fr. Ricardo de Luna, the judicial vicar of the Diocese of San Pablo have replenish with copy of this documents to help out those who seek for annulment in the Catholic Church. I have to transcribed it here for the digital form. Please be careful not to substitute annulment with divorce. Annulment is a process from which their is a valid result that the marriage validity is defective since the beginning. In reality there is no marriage really that took place. An annulment is a declaration by a Church tribunal (a Catholic church court) that a marriage thought to be valid according to Church law actually fell short of at least one of the essential elements required for a binding union. A valid Catholic marriage results from five elements: (1) the spouses are free to marry; (2) they freely exchange their consent; (3) in consenting to marry, they have the intention to marry for life, to be faithful to one another and be open to children; (4) they intend the good of each oth...

Right after the Mass this morning, I checked my email as usual, one of the email I received is a querry on Church wedding. Here is her Letter: Good day, I am a Filiipina, 22 years of age and wanted to marry an American, 33 and divorced, here in Cebu . We want to have a church wedding as soon as possible (June or July 2008 , if permitted). I just want to ask some help, please help me, what documents/papers do i need, as well as my husband to be? What do i need to do first? He's still in the states and i need to prepare everything, make everything smooth before he comes here in Philippines . I know nothing about how to prepare or get married in the church. I don't know what papers to prepare. I hope to hear from you soon. Your answer will be a lot of help! It'll be very much appreciated. Thank you, Therese Here is my answer: Therese, If he is divorced, Ask him if he is married in the Catholic Church. If his previous marriage is celebrated in the Catholic Church, he need Ch...