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To: LadyNavyVet
Protestant churches, of course, NEVER allow ceremonies among those who don’t attend regularly.

First off, marriage isn't a Sacrament for Protties. Marriage is a celebration & in cases where the couple had been living in sin, the marriage is an open sign of repentance.

Back in 1976, I asked the minister of the ELCA church that I had gone to as a child to perform my marriage ceremony. He told me that he'd do it only after I had rejoined the congregation & that meant regular attendance for a year.

My husband to be was a lapsed Catholic. He knew better than to ask the pastor at the church he'd been a member of as a child, but we found two other Catholic churches that were quite willing to perform our marriage Mass.

What's the Catholic Church's current teaching on funeral Mass & burial for those who've committed suicide?

123 posted on 11/06/2008 9:44:57 AM PST by GoLightly (Hey, Obama. When's my check going to get here?)
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To: GoLightly

“First off, marriage isn’t a Sacrament for Protties.”

Yes, which is why you will find priests very reluctant to deny it to people who otherwise meet the requirements.


145 posted on 11/06/2008 12:32:33 PM PST by LadyNavyVet (Be a monthly donor.)
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