To: Domestic Church
So you are saying, today you can be married in a Catholic ceremony with the Holy Mass being said and not have a Sacramental marriage because one spouse is Jewish or nonreligious or whatever? I do not believe that it is permissible to have a Mass at the marriage ceremony between a baptized Catholic and a unbaptized person.
101 posted on
12/20/2005 7:55:33 AM PST by
conservonator
(Pray for those suffering)
To: conservonator
There used to be rules against that sort of thing, but they all went out in recent years, as I understand it.
On the other hand, the Church shows its great displeasure when Catholics do not keep its laws, but marry persons not of their own religion. At a mixed marriage the couple cannot be married in the church, nor even in the sacristy; the priest cannot wear a surplice or stole or any of the sacred vestments of the Church; he cannot use holy water, or the Sign of the Cross; he cannot bless the ring or even use the Church's language--Latin. Everything is done in the coldest manner, to remind Catholics that they are doing what is displeasing to their mother the Church.
From the Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism.
102 posted on
12/20/2005 11:09:01 AM PST by
gbcdoj
(Let us ask the Lord with tears, that according to his will so he would shew his mercy to us Jud 8:17)
To: conservonator
I do not believe that it is permissible to have a Mass at the marriage ceremony between a baptized Catholic and a unbaptized person. Not permissable at a marriage between a baptized Catholic and a baptized non-Catholic, either.
103 posted on
12/20/2005 11:11:28 AM PST by
Campion
("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
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