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Religious blessing...

  • 10-07-2013 9:27am
    #1
    angers79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭


    Hi,
    We are getting married in a civil ceremony in France as we live there, but are having our religious ceremony in Ireland.
    It is possible just to have a blessing in the church? It's not important to us to be married as such in the Church - its more the keep the Irish side of the family happy!
    Thanks for any information on this...
    A.


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  • #2
    lazygal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    I've only seen this happen when a Catholic priest was family or close friend. Is it a Catholic blessing you're looking for? AFAIK the church considers the marriage rite as a pretty sacred sacrament, not just something you do to keep the family happy, and are reluctant to do a nominal blessing in lieu of the full marriage ceremony.


  • #3
    tatli_lokma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,332 ✭✭✭tatli_lokma


    As lazygal says, it is not the norm for a priest to agree. When we requested a blessing we got a big long lecture about the sacriment of marriage and that civil ceremonies could not be blessed in the eyes of the church as they were not 'true' marriages in the eyes of the catholic church. Having said that, in other countries such as Holland I know that the only legally recognised marriage is a civil one and if you want a religious one it has to be done seperate (at least that is how it was when my cousin got married a while ago). As a result in Holland priests often perform a 'blessing' and perform the wedding rites and sacriments in a totally seperate ceremony.

    If getting married in a church is not that important to you, why not just have a spiritualist ceremony? Or if you are marrying in Dublin you could ask the Unitarian church as they tend to be more flexible about such things than the Catholics. Or if one of your parents is quite a regular church goer they might be able to convince a priest in the parish on the basis that you must get married initially in France.


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