Posted on 11/18/2006 1:15:37 PM PST by SkyPilot
PARIS (AFP) - The Church of Scientology provides for several kinds of wedding ceremony for its followers, but according to the most traditional the husband "may promise to provide her (his wife) with "a pan, a comb, perhaps a cat."
US actor Tom Cruise and actress Katie Holmes will provide perhaps the most high-profile Scientologists' wedding to date this weekend.
And according to unconfirmed reports in the Italian media, American Scientology leader David Miscavige will fly in from Los Angeles to preside over the event.
According to the Scientologists' book "The Background, Ministry, Ceremonies and Sermons of the Scientology Religion", there are five versions of the Scientologist wedding ceremony: traditional, informal, single ring, double ring, and concise double ring, all of varying length and formality.
Scientology's "traditional ceremony" includes such advice to the groom as "Now -----, girls need clothes and food and tender happiness and frills, a pan, a comb, perhaps a cat.
"All caprice if you will, but still they need them."
The bride is told: "Hear well, sweet -----, for promise binds. Young men are free and may forget. Remind him that you may have necessities and follies, too."
It looks like Katy....Messing her pants.
"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!"
"Somebody help me! I got drunk the night before and now I'm stuck in this loony cult!"
What's with her hand? She certainly doesn't look like an ecstatic bride to be, does she?
" A comb and brush and a bowl full of mush"
Me too.
WITH this Ring I thee wed, with my Body I thee worship, and with all my worldly Goods I thee endow: In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Amen. Although the marriage of Charles and Diana was a catastrophe, the wedding ceremony was magnificent.
It's the service my husband and I had and we're happy, but then neither of us had someone else waiting in the wings.
He never promised me a cat, but we have two. I have a set of Calphalon pans and numerous combs, including a silver dresser set.
She looks like she's dressed for a funeral.
That is what I read on Yahoo. Very, very strange.
I thought it was odd for her to wear black to the castle.
How can there be a "traditional" scientology wedding ceremony if the fake religion was only made up a few decades ago?
From Dennis Prager:
the famous are seldom great and the great are seldom famous
"And a little old lady whispering, 'Katie, your brains are mush.'"
She deserves whatever comes to her. Nobody forced her to have Tom's baby or marry him.
The only thing she's trapped by is her own decisions and actions.
WHAT is with that picture???? Is that supposed to be Katie??? Yikes!
A week after the wedding she finds him in bed with a boy. "Thanks sweetie, you've served your purpose! My people will show you to your new place. See you at the next awards ceremony!"
-ccm
1928 only!
-ccm
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