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The oldest traditional wedding vows can be traced back to the manuals of the medieval church. In England, there were manuals of the dioceses of Salisbury and York.The compilers of the first Book of Common Prayer, published in 1549, based its marriage service mainly on the Sarum manual.
Specific prayers for them were promulgated in Rome in 1838. [ 3 ] According to Frederick Holweck , the May devotion in its present form originated at Rome where Father Latomia of the Roman College of the Society of Jesus , to counteract infidelity and immorality among the students, made a vow at the end of the eighteenth century to devote the ...
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Mental prayer was defined by John A. Hardon in his Modern Catholic Dictionary as a form of prayer in which the sentiments expressed are one's own and not those of another person. Mental prayer is a form of prayer whereby one loves God through dialogue with him, meditating on his words, and contemplating him. [9]
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A couple marrying according to the Mystery of Crowning at a Byzantine Rite Catholic wedding The Mystery of Crowning is a ritual component of the sacrament of marriage in Eastern Christianity . Variations of the crowning ceremony exist in multiple liturgical rites , including the Byzantine , Coptic , West Syriac , and East Syriac Rites of the ...
The Raccolta (literally, "collection" in Italian), is a book, published in many editions from 1807 to 1952, that collected the texts of Roman Catholic prayers and briefly described other acts of piety, such as visiting and praying in particular churches, for which specific indulgences were granted by popes.
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.