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Catholic wedding ceremony...sacrifice?
Hypatia
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My Google-fu has failed me. My friend just got married and is on her honeymoon now, otherwise I'd ask her. She's Catholic and at some point near the end of the ceremony the priest (?) announced that before the reception there would be some kind of a sacrifice ceremony at a different building. I didn't go because I thought it must be a private religious thing, but now I've been trying to look up what it was about and I'm not turning anything up. Can someone please enlighten me or give me a pointer to some place to read about it?
I'm assuming and hoping that it wasn't say...a goat or a chicken or something.
I'm assuming and hoping that it wasn't say...a goat or a chicken or something.
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The one thing I could think of is the communion offering. But that doesn't add up, because that wouldn't be in a different building, it would be right in the church on the altar. And it's not done by itself or in a ceremony, but as part of a complete mass.
Hopefully a practicing catholic can help you more.
That'd be stuff like communion. Actually I think Marriage is one of the seven(?) too, but I'm rusty on that.
My guess would be that they had the reception in one building and then went off to do mass/communion in another building.
Or who knows; maybe it's some twisted branch of the same crazy tree and they really do go out back and kill oxen for their deity.
Technically this is wrong.
They went to eat human flesh and drink human blood. It's just that their senses can't perceive the change.
The best part is that it's tacked onto the end. So its *Wedding* "You may kiss the bride" Cheer/applaud WHOOO, now sit/stand/sit/stand/kneel/stand/sit while old guy jabbers for another hour.
My guess is this.
Also Jews no longer do animal sacrifice because that was only done at the temple in Jerusalem and there is no more temple at Jerusalem, so it's not been practiced for thousands of years within Judaism.
We just had 2 readings, the gospel, a homily, communion, the cerem...
son of a bitch! Dat priest tricked us!
What?
I'm constantly amazed at people's funny ideas about Catholicism given its level of standardization.
Mass takes less than an hour, and adding a wedding often doesn't increase that time at all. Sometimes the sermon might drag I suppose. The steps are all prescribed, there just isn't much you can change.
There is certainly no sacrifice of any sort, apart from the Eucharist. As has been suggested, sacrament could have been said, but that's the wedding (or Eucharist) itself. No Sacrament would be performed outside the church unless maybe someone had a stroke during the ceremony and needed Anointing at the hospital :-p
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Nah, it was one particular wedding I went to that had it take 2-3 hours. Most Catholics do an abbreviated communion (from what I see) if they're going to do one, but some don't.
See? This. So weird. This literally does not exist in Catholicism. The ceremony and mass are integrated, and they take about an hour.
--LeVar Burton
I need to go back to church.
Certain Holy days have longer masses. Wedding day just ain't one. The priest wants to get to that open bar too.
--LeVar Burton
I am telling you that literally existed. Cause I was at it. It occurred here:
St Paul's Rc Church
151 North 9th Street
Reading, PA 19601
About 4 years ago. I even discussed the anti-climatic nature of the ceremony with other people who were there. So it wasn't just the frankincense high screwing with my mind.
Opening prayers
First reading (usually Old Testament)
Responsorial Psalm
Second Reading (Usually a letter of St Paul)
Allelluiah
Reading from the Gospel
Priest's Sermon
The Profession of Faith
Presenting of Bread/Wine
Blessing of Bread/Wine
Lord's Prayer
Offering the Sign of Piece
Holy Communion
Closing prayers
Whenever I've been at a wedding, usually the Sermon and sometimes the Profession of Faith gets swapped out for the actual marriage sacrament. This may be different in America however.
EDIT: Also I've never seen "you may kiss the bride" in real life.
Full Liturgy of the word (1st and 2nd reading and Gospel w/ all the stuff inbetween)
Sermon/Homily rolled into the wedding ceremony complete with 'you may kiss the bride'
Full Liturgy of the Eucharist
I've been to some weddings that were pushing two hours. Take longer than usual readings, a long-winded priest, and add a packed church making communion take forever and the whole process can really be drawn out.
... In the course of human events anything is possible...
However this would involve a repetition of the many parts where these two ceremonies overlap, and would require the priest to alter things that they usually are not interested in.
You're sure this was a Catholic wedding?
P.S. "You may kiss the bride" is an entirely non-Catholic thing, but since it's become so locked in people's minds from movies, some priests allow it. Usually with a comment on chaste kisses in Church.
--LeVar Burton
I would like to say that after going to a Catholic wedding and a Jewish wedding. I'll take a Jewish wedding every day of the week. Even the quick Catholic weddings just don't quite have the same level of fun attached.
There's your problem.
The adage is generally Catholics don't have fun because it's a sin. Whereas Jewish people love to celebrate occasions.
But yeah, Jewish weddings are fun as shit!
Not an adage!
Irish, Italians, Mexicans.
Not people known for uptight no-funsters.
Lazy drunks with big families, yes.
No-funsters, no.
People are the worst at maintaining stereotypes.
--LeVar Burton
Unless one of the persons isn't Catholic of course. Also, with weddings the homily can take quite some time.
Also it varies from place to place, even within Catholicism. Priests have quite some freedom, it really depends on the priest how long it will take.
A Catholic Mass can be done in 20 mins and should be no longer than 45. My sisters wedding was no more than an hour.
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Chill out.
I didn't say it was correct. No one is attacking your religion here, you can probably get off the defensive.
The program had a mass, blessings, and communion in it as well as vows, singing, etc.
Not offended, pointing out nonsense.
I mean seriously, if we can't even get our stereotypes right, then who are we, as a people?
Next you'll start talking about Protestant laziness, or ivory tower Polacks.
Shameful.
--LeVar Burton
...Were you served Oxen at the reception afterward? Did it seem really, really fresh?
You hope it was oxen!
But no need for extra buildings for that.
--LeVar Burton