Confession for weddings

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Many times when there is a gathering that includes a number of non Catholics the priest will make an announcement immediately prior to communion that the non Catholics and fallen away Catholics (And they should know who they are) should not receive Holy Communion.
 
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Don’t you think it would be so awesome if Priests gave time for a confessional period prior to a Catholic Wedding Mass ? That way you don’t have to be the jerk that tells the attendees that they aren’t ALLOWED to receive the Eucharist, since none of them ever go to mass anymore?

Then like write it on the invitations and say:

“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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Sorry but this is none of your business.
 
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Don’t you think it would be so awesome if Priests gave time for a confessional period prior to a Catholic Wedding Mass ?
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It would be different for sure, I don’t know about “awesome”. I think you are expecting a lot from the priests- they have already committed time to prepare the couple, get the whole wedding party on the same page, overseeing the preparations, making sure that church is available and prepared for the event and can be concluded so the church can be ready for the vigil mass later.

And now something else?

I’m not sure how well the invited will take it- I’m not sure what I would think as an invitee.
 
I suppose you can discreetly print the message from the Bishop in the invitation, but other than that you need to stay out of it unless someone specifically asks. Let the other adults use their own reasoning to seek out confession ahead of the wedding if they wish to receive at the wedding mass. It’s between them and God.
 
I’d like to know how you can be sure that they haven’t been to confession already. Have you been following them around? Videotaping them? If not, they could have gone the day before, for all you know.

A reminder on the program is one thing, going out of your way to provide a special confession time and telling specific people not to receive is another thing. An inappropriate and presumptuous thing.
 
I am not sure how the OP chooses someone’s wedding as an appropriate time to point fingers for people going to confession. People that go to confession on a regular basis have already gone, and those who don’t are not going to feel moved to go before a wedding where everyone is watching who is going.

Unless confession is offered before every single mass, I see no reason a parish would choose this wedding mass as the place to offer it.

I would not put anything in the program about confession. If you are Catholic, you know you are supposed to go. And people have either gone or not.
 
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That’s exactly what my wife and I did at our wedding. On the back of the program we briefly explained that Catholic Christians believe that the Eucharist is the Body and Blood of our Lord. Then we put the words of the US Bishops on the back of the program as well.

I don’t think Confession was available because we had a noon wedding, but many weddings I’ve attended at the same parish had confession going on throughout the Mass if it was after 2PM. If you want to ensure that confession is available the day of your wedding, have the wedding Mass coincide with the same time confession is going on. Many parishes offer Confession on Saturday afternoons, which is precisely when most weddings take place. I’ve taken advantage of that during weddings many a time.
 
The priests I have worked with will schedule a confession hour at the rehearsal.
 
Totally agree. This is a great practice. I know some couples who have done this…marvelous “use” of their wedding.
 
Yep. The announcement is something along the line of “Communion is for those Catholics who are properly disposed to receive. We invite those who are not receiving to use this time to pray for unity of all Christians.”
 
It’s a marveous opportunity for reconcilation, healing, renewal, and beginning again. No one is pointing fingers.

It’s a great and thoughtful act of charity the couple and the priest are doing by offering the Sacrament of Joy to any who wants it.

It will greatly please God to have deeper unity and communion at every Sacrament of Holy Matrimony.
 
Or, if you are really worried about people receiving unworthily, just don’t administer communion to the congregation.
I’m pretty sure only the celebrant needs receive. I suppose you and the groom could too (if you are sure he has been to confession)

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maybe he/she is offering their wedding as an instrument of God’s redemptive work, allowing people to return to God.
 
Sometimes it’s good for a priest to remind what the rules are for confession before receiving communion. After that it’s up to the person to decide.
 
I’m not sure I’d want that done in conjunction with my wedding though. I would think that would be what folks would remember. 😳
 
I would imagine that having confessions before a wedding would be relatively pointless.

Those who don’t need the sacrament at that moment wouldn’t go.

Those who did need the sacrament might feel uncomfortable knowing others might see them in line or going in or out of the confessional. The ribbing they’d receive from their peers at the reception could be severe.
 
I’ve now read a lot of what the OP has posted and I’m starting to think this is a troll. If she isn’t I’d worry about someone with these outlandish ideas she’s expressed being a catechist as she claims to be. At any rate she’s been suspended.
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klmt123 said:
As a Cathecist, I disagree, but okay. When you know the teachings, you are held accountable for all that you know.
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You’re a Catechist?
How old are you and who do you “catechize”/ Some of the stuff you have posted on here seems pretty questionable in view of Church teaching, and that’s a bit of a concern if you are imparting your ideas to others.

Edited to add, never mind, I see she’s suspended.
 
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