Thanks for the update, will keep you in my prayers. Don’t think the deacon will be pleased to be told he is wrong; perhaps make an appointment with the parish priest to discuss how to proceed further with this application (you may need his referal); the deacon would come to know his error when he sees that you are being helped in this regard. Anyhow, good luck and I’m very happy for you.
Hello everyone! I contacted the deacon and while I’m not sure how he felt about being told what Canon Law states regarding Radical Sanation. I did reference it and he looked it up while we were on the phone. He has asked me to provide my baptismal records, certified marriage license, and proof of my question submitted to this forum. He has planned to meet with me this Friday. He wants to ensure that I know what I am asking of both him and the Church. He also informed me I will be required to sign a document stating I will raise my children in the Church, which I am already doing. I am still going to seek out my parish priest to let him know.
I am familiar with how the radical sanation is done, which may actively involve one spouse only. What forms are used depends upon the diocese, but I have seen what is used in a few dioceses. After interview and any marital instructions, there are forms to submit:
What is church of enrolment?
The parish that keeps your sacramental record notations is the parish at which you were was baptized or, in the case of converts coming from other Christian denominations, the parish in which one made first communion and confirmation. If you are baptized at St. A, then your family moves, and seven years later you make your communion at St. B, then you move again and make your confirmation eight years later at St. C, then ten years later you are married at St. D, all of these sacraments are communicated to St. A, which notes them in the parish register. If you were baptised as a Lutheran and became a Catholic as an adult, then the Lutheran baptism will be noted at St. E, along with first communion and confirmation when you became a Catholic. The rest follows the same procedure.
Ok … yes … I know and understand that … but which one is your church of enrolment?
The parish that keeps your sacramental record notations is the parish of enrollment.Ok … yes … I know and understand that … but which one is your church of enrolment?
Oh, well it there seems to be different ideas of church of enrollment. Some are thinking of where the baptism occurred, and maybe others where one is registered. What I meant was the Church sui iuris that one belongs to, which means one of the 23 Catholic Churches (Latin Church and 22 eastern Catholic Churches). If a person transfers at marriage or by grant, it must be recorded in the sacramental records.
Thanks: that makes sense. So, when in Post #25 you listed “church of enrolment” it was an example. I’ve always been a Latin Catholic so I’ll have no such record per se; just my baptismal record showing I was baptised in the Latin Catholic Church.
I suppose that if it was a Latin Catholic Church it would be assumed to be a Latin enrollment, unless noted otherwise. I noticed, from ordering copies of sacramental records, that the annotations are not always made on the back. My records are in various places since I have been in many parishes over the years. Nobody, it seems, recorded first penance or first communion. (Not required, I think.)
