CCC 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."¹²⁶ GS 48 # 1; OCM 45; cf. CIC, can. 1057 # 2. This consent that binds the spouses to each other finds its fulfillment in the two "becoming one flesh."¹²⁷ Gen 2:24; cf. Mt 10:8; Eph 5:31.