Confession for weddings

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Were you kicked out of boot camp or something? At the risk of getting nailed someone has to call the question.
 
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Edward_H said:
Some may go. Some have more humility and love for God than they have vanity and love of self.
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Let’s not mince words here. The OP wants to make a guilt-trip ridden confession open before a wedding and demand that of people. To me, that seems the height of vanity. Announcing control over another’s spiritual life and pronouncing perceived guilt when there may not be any! To not truly be concerned with someone’s soul but to try to force a sacrament like a parent forces a petulant child to wear a coat in winter.

No one is arguing confession is not good. However, confession is not a bargaining chip. These discussions need to be had in mercy and personally and backed up by wedding programs and brief reminders by the Priest before Mass. Confession should be available frequently. But strong-arming people before a wedding is not the place.
 
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I think you’re judging and you don’t realize it.

I doubt the oringal poster would say you correctly captured their intention.

You’re not being fair, you’re judging.
 
To be fair, I think that you should read some of your responses to people.
 
Edward_H said:
I think you’re judging and you don’t realize it.

I doubt the oringal poster would say you correctly captured their intention.

You’re not being fair, you’re judging.
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No, I’m reading the OP
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“Prior to the wedding ceremony there will be a time for confession, please make use of this if are Catholic and you haven’t been to mass in a while.”
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There is NO reason to say “please make use of this”. None. It takes things a step too far. You can say that Confession is available and is a great tool of our faith to ensure proper reception of the Eucharist, but simply demanding that someone go to Confession (without indicating that it’s tied to worthy Eucharistic reception) is wholly inappropriate.
 
No there’s nothing close to what you insinuate in those words. You’re going way beyond and in an uncharitable way.

Gross distortion.
 
Edward_H said:
No there’s nothing close to what you insinuate in those words. You’re going way beyond and in an uncharitable way.

Gross distortion.
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So you think it’s fine to demand others recieve a sacrament?
 
Edward_H said:
Again the gross distortion.

Why must you do this?
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No, it’s not a distortion. “Please make use of this if you haven’t been to mass in a while” is a demand. One that is not appropriate in any way. It’s vague, (what’s a while–2 weeks? 10 years?) it doesn’t even clue in the person as to why or the consequences. (you can’t come? don’t receive Eucharist?) And it is also misleading even if it did indicate that it was for the Eucharist because it almost makes it sound like one Could fully participate in the wedding Mass and Communion if one was not Catholic without confession.
 
Nothing I that sentence demands.

“Please God make use of me.”

Is that demanding anything from God?

You’ve grossly distorted the point and you can’t let it go.
 
My late father in law was USMC in Vietnam. Took a bullet in '69, somewhere near the border region. I am pretty sure he was in the 9th Marines, 3rd Division?, I Corps. He died before I met my wife, but my mother in law let me look at his DD-214, and i think he was wounded sometime in the spring of 1969. He almost never spoke about Vietnam according to my wife, so she and her mother don’t know that much about his service there. I tried to piece together something about his service from the little documentary info I had available.
 
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Edward_H said:
You’ve grossly distorted the point and you can’t let it go.
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Edward, it is you that need to let it go. It is clear that what you you think. You have attacked, and mocked and repeated your views. Let it go.
 
It’s not a distortion. Please explain why you think it’s a distortion of the OP instead of just making pronouncements.
 
I don’t buy that mentioning confession is available by a layperson (in print no less) is tantamount to demanding and shaming people (based on the reactions of some reactionaries above).
 
People were mostly objecting to the wording of that mention of confession and whether it should even be mentioned at all, and also to the uncompromising position of the OP in her threads. Feelings have gotten overwrought and heated and have made further discussion pointless.
 
In the Marine Corps, we never considered the Air Force a military branch, just civilians wearing uniforms. 😃

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