Confession for weddings

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No, but I meant offering it in the form of asking a priest to have confession before the wedding. It is actually more of a charitable thing to do and offer God’s mercy in the form of the sacrament.
 
Sure you can ask a priest to offer it before a Wedding, which he’ll most likely refuse.

His schedule is probably tight, but it’s also not the time or place to offer confessions.

Remember, the priest is the authority on this matter, not you, and you have no right telling Catholics that they must go to confession before they receive at a Wedding Service.

Jim
 
It is an invitation not a matter of force. I don’t see why a priest can offer a wedding but not stay for a few minutes beforehand to hear confessions.
 
OsculeturMeOsculo said:
It is not rude to say please go to confession if you have not been to mass in a while. I think some people are too sensitive these days.
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It actually is, because it’s none of the couple’s business.

“Confession will be available prior to the Nuptial Mass in such-and-such room/chapel/area for interested Catholics”

There. Far more polite. Still needs refinement but it’s better than “if you don’t go to Mass like you know you should, you need to go to Confession before you come to my wedding”.

I think some people have a low regard for tact.
 
I think some people are causing problems where there aren’t any.
 
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It’s up to that priest, but it’s really not the venue to offer confessions before the wedding.

For one, there is usually a lot of activity in the church, setting up for the wedding.

Jim
 
OsculeturMeOsculo said:
It is an invitation not a matter of force. I don’t see why a priest can offer a wedding but not stay for a few minutes beforehand to hear confessions.
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No one is disputing that.

It’s printing it on the invite that is offensive. It simply isn’t done that way, and definitely not in the way in the original post.
 
Wait…you mean a wedding isn’t a good time to perfect our union with God and with each other, and within ourselves?

Confession is about a great reunion…a bettering of unions, true communion.

Communion with God
Communion with His Church
Communion with each other
Communion interiorly, with our will, our intellect, our conscience, and our passions and appetites.

There might be no better place for Confession than at a Wedding!

No one is telling anyong that they must go to communion. Stop exagerating and distorting.
 
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This whole thread is an opinion. 😊
 
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Yeah a Wedding isn’t the place for instruction on spiritual development and Catholic education.

It’s a sacrament between a man and woman and should be treated as such, not as some agenda a person has in getting people in line with doctrine.

Jim
 
It is not an agenda. Nobody should get invited either I guess.
 
It’s up to the couple who gets invited to their wedding.

Even the priest doesn’t get involved in sending out invitations

JIm
 
JimR-OCDS said:
It’s up to that priest, but it’s really not the venue to offer confessions before the wedding.

For one, there is usually a lot of activity in the church, setting up for the wedding.

Jim
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There is setting up and breaking down, as the clear majority of Catholic weddings are on Saturday afternoon and they need to be ready for the anticipated mass that is coming up fast on the heels of the wedding.
 
That is quite a double standard. Couple invites whatever they want but can’t even put something about going to confession on the invites.
 
It’s a priestly responsibility to teach, to remind perhaps wayward Catholics what consititutes “receiving worthily”.

A wedding - with all its emotion - should not become an occasion for deepening one’s state of sin by receiving the Eucharist with known (and pehaps known by others…if one of the wedding guests is living with someone without being married…that’s scandal) and grave sin on one’s soul.

So the priest is correct to minimize further sin, and is also free to offer the Sacrament of Reconciliation!

What would be a bettter wedding present than to use the wedding to return to God?

It’s a beautiful idea, a great great gift to the people at the wedding.

The Wedding thus becomes a very effective “instrument of salvation”…what a marvelous way to start a marriage. What a gift to all attendees and the the world affected by their reconciliation!

In fact, all marriages can be and should become very effective “instruments of salvation” for God.

You haven’t provided a good argument.
 
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The couple can add a snippet on Catholic Doctrine concerning the reception of Holy Communion.

Beyond that, it’s up to the individuals to make it to confession prior to going to the wedding, which is often, not even their parish.

It certainly shouldn’t be done by a lay person on the wedding day before the service starts

Jim
 
They have confessions before Mass so I can’t see why they can’t have one before a Wedding service. Nobody is forcing anybody either.
 
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