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A traditional wedding ceremony in a Friends meeting is similar to any other meeting for worship and therefore is often very different from the experience expected by non-Friends. The attendees gather for silent worship, often with the couple sitting in front of the meeting (that may depend on the layout of the particular Friends meeting house).
the priest leaving the altar to give the sign of peace to some of the faithful; expressing other sentiments, e.g. expressing congratulations, best wishes or condolences among those present at a wedding, funeral or other ceremony. The gesture by which the sign of peace is exchanged is to be determined by the local episcopal conference.
Those who concoct two natures of the Lord before the union but imagine a single one after the union. Religious or laity who attempt to produce another creed. Religious or laity who assist in a simoniacal ordination (i.e., buying the sacrament of holy orders). Priests or religious who go into military service or politics.
The Vatican’s newly released document addressing the blessing of same-sex couples doesn’t pave the way for gay weddings at churches or with Catholic priests as officiants.
Traditionally, the wedding couple would wear their wedding crowns for eight days, and there is a special prayer said by the priest at the removal of the crowns. Divorce is discouraged. Sometimes out of economia (mercy) a marriage may be dissolved if there is no hope whatever for a marriage to fulfill even a semblance of its intended sacramental ...
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Letter to a Priest" (French: Lettre à un religieux) is a letter containing thirty-five "expressions of opinion on matters concerning Catholic faith, dogma and institutions" by the French religious and social philosopher and mystic Simone Weil. It was first published in 1951 by Gallimard, and an English edition followed in 1953. It has since ...