I wonder what they mean by devout Lutheran family? If they are LCMS or WELS, the clergy in either of those denomiations wouldn’t do it because it would syncretism.
My Priest said that after he completed the vows the Rabbi could do whatever he wanted, but the Rabbi wouldn’t come to the Church and neither would my husband’s family....NONE OF THEM, so we had to have 2 weddings on two days. MY VERY CATHOLIC family came to both!!
Since you're the author, doesn't that mean that you own the copyright?
Maybe it would show a bit more integrity if you were to say, I want to tease you to come to my blog, therefore, I am only posting an excerpt.
38 years ago (as of last Wednesday) my wife and I were married with both a Catholic priest and a Methodist minister officiating. I wasn’t aware that this might have been something out of the ordinary!
Or, you could grant non-commercial publishing rights to everyone.
Get married by an Elvis impersonator in Vegas and don’t worry about it....
Then why did you excerpt from it? The site says it can not be reproduced in part or in full without permission. Since you have already violated that, why not go all the way? Or would that be against canon law?
An important consideration to this is that the Catholic and other Orthodox churches, as well as conservative Protestant churches, should reach an agreement *not* of equality of their faiths, but of agreement over the principals of the sacrament of marriage.
And when they reach this agreement, it would mean that they would recognize each others sacramental marriages as legitimate; but more importantly, that they would *not* recognize marriages *outside* of sacramental marriage as legitimate.
This would mean that they would reserve the definition of sacramental marriage to just marriage that follows the traditional rules, so for example, no homosexual marriage, and that they also disavow secular marriage, that accepting its existence is not the same as giving it equality with sacramental marriage.
In effect, this would take the sacrament away from government, appreciating secular or liberal marriage as only “administrative”, not sacramental, nor “before God”.
Granted, an obstacle would seem to be in divorce, for which the Orthodox and conservative churches disagree, but those rules would be reserved for each church.
The only obligation here would be a registry of sacramental marriage kept by all these churches, so that married couples can be identified as being sacrament-married.
My wife and I were married in a Lutheran Church with our marriage performed by a Catholic priest and her Lutheran pastor. I regard my marriage a totally valid and we didn’t have to go through any hoops with the local Bishop.