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Marriage & different religions

  • 01-05-2008 10:05am
    #1
    stripey24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭


    My partner and I would like to marry but we are from different religious backgrounds, they belonging to a non denominational Church and I belonging to the Catholic Church. At the moment neither are not quite keen to marry in the others' church however is there any type of ceremony we could have where we could include the blessings/acknowledgements of both religions?
    Has anyone done something like this before?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    At my aunts wedding whereby her fianceé at the time was Catholic, and she was Anglican, she was married in the Anglican Church but the local Catholic priest was present to preside over it and to take part in the service. I don't see why collaboration is such an issue in this case. Just ask the pastors / priests involved.


  • #3
    TravelJunkie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 438 ✭✭TravelJunkie


    Same situation with me, except I was the non-Catholic.
    We landed up marrying with a Minister (an ex-Catholic priest who now acts as a Minister for marriages) This was nice because he could officiate it and also, with a priest background, he also had a lovely Christian message he could add to it. What we did then, after vows etc, was light the candle as you do in the Catholic service, as a symbol and some other things like that.

    But the marriage happened in a Chapel, not a church, so it wasn't a church wedding as such, which might be important to you. In that case, perhaps your non-denominational partner might agree to marry in the Catholic church if the priests agrees that he doesn't have to convert or take a big pre-marriage course in order to do so.


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