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Archive for category Marriage

Ordinary Time, White Dresses

It’s July. It may be Ordinary Time but those of us in parish life know that this is wedding season.

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Be nice – even at weddings

Vicars in the Church of England are instructed to be more welcoming and allow for a more casual attitude at weddings.

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A wedding custom of the Indian Thomas Christians

The Syro-Malabar Rite Catholics I met have a saying, adapted from Fr. Placid Podipara: they are “Indian in culture, Catholic in religion, and Syriac in worship.” Just this morning I discovered a new instance of the truth of this saying…

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Embracing the Mysteries as One: Mystagogy and Marriage

In the coming months we will be piloting this marriage-mystagogy session in several diverse parishes around Minnesota with couples who have been married for at least six months.

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Land Ho!

Looks like the Catholic Church will be prohibiting weddings on cruise ships.

A Response to Anscar Chupungco

I want to comment at some length on Fr. Anscar’s claim that some proposals (and proponents?) of the so-called “reform of the reform” movement demonstrate an “inability to fuse together…sound tradition and legitimate progress” for on-going liturgical renewal in the Roman Catholic Church.

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