Rita’s featured post, along with Philip Sandstrom’s comment, sent me scurrying to see what the parts of the marriage rite contained in the new Missal translation looked like.
Archive for category Marriage
Symbolic loss
Aug 5
I found my wedding ring today about noon.
That’s a pretty steep decline. I’m sure this means something important. What is it, do you think?
Royal Wedding Liturgy
May 16
The marriage of Prince William to Catherine Middleton was a fairytale event in a troubled world. They are a highly popular young couple and everyone wishes them well. All the more disappointing therefore was the fact that the wedding rite seemed so far adrift from people of their age group, and from the life of the Church as regular worshippers know it.
What effect might this very public liturgy have on what couples will be asking for their weddings, Anglican or not?
Royal Nuptials
Apr 28
Tomorrow’s the big day for the happy couple. See what they’re planning and what the celebrant has to say.
UPDATED with links to the service-bulletin pdf.
If and when we receive an English version of the third edition of the Roman Missal, we are supposed to receive the English version of the second edition (the editio typica altera) of the Order of Celebrating Marriage (the Ordo Celebrandi Matrimonium) on March 19, 1990!
Wedding consultation
Oct 19
Here is a video transcript of a wedding consultation.
This is disturbing – a very sharp decline in Catholic marriages in Massachusetts. One wonders how widespread such disaffilliation from organized religion is. Sigh.
Ordinary Time, White Dresses
Jul 21
It’s July. It may be Ordinary Time but those of us in parish life know that this is wedding season.