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1627 The consent consists in a "human act by which the partners mutually give themselves to each other": "I take you to be my wife" - "I take you to be my husband." 128 This consent that binds the spouses to each other finds its fulfillment in the two "becoming one flesh." 129
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128 GS 48 § 1; OCM 45; cf. CIC, can. 1057 § 2.129 Gen 2:24; cf. Mt 10:8; Eph 5:31.
English Translation of the Cathechism of the Catholic Church for the United States of America © 1997, United States Catholic Conference, Inc.
