Category: Marriage
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Do Solemn Blessings need work?
NEIL XAVIER O’DONOGHUE — In light of the controversy provoked by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith’s Declaration Fiducia Supplicans On the Pastoral Meaning of Blessings, I don’t think anyone can deny that the theology of blessings needs more elaboration. In this sense I would like to point out a particular aspect of…
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Ars Praedicandi: Marriage, Sacrament of Trinitarian Unity
KIMBERLY HOPE BELCHER — God’s unity does not only overcome differences, but makes them possible.
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Wedding Fair
A few days ago I was taking a walk and passed by a local hotel that was advertising a Wedding Fair. Unsurprisingly, the hotel management wanted more people to get married and, by hosting the wedding banquet (or indeed the ceremony as well), to boost their profits. The liturgical celebration of the marriage of two…
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Book Review: Intercultural Marriage
Theologically speaking, the process of interculturality is revelatory of the Church’s understanding of the sacramental union, which reconciles, heals, and unites the barriers created by differences.
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Online Lecture: Does the Catholic Sacrament of Marriage have a Future?
Marriage rates are falling, fewer couples are marrying in churches and many more people agree that marriage is becoming obsolete. Catholic teaching on lifelong sacramental marriage seems a relic from another time.
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Marital Companionship and the Liturgy of Life
Christian marriage is an authentic living out of liturgy.
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Not Always a Bad Idea
I am struck by the fact that certain things are regarded as terrible ideas in liturgy until suddenly they become good ideas. One example is the custom of those who are not receiving Communion to enter the Communion line, approaching the minister with their hands crossed over their breast and receiving a blessing. This was regarded…
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Outdoor wedding in New York City
They’re both vegan… and both conservative. He is Jewish, and by the end of the article, you gather that she is Roman Catholic. A priest performed the wedding… outdoors. Lots of pictures of the wedding in the NYTimes story: “Conservative and a Vegan in New York. Wait! You Are Too?”
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A Wedding Mass
The homilist addressed the soon-to-be-married couple, telling them that in each other they have found “the cause of and the work of your salvation.” The phrase struck me as a fine way to characterize marriage.