Confession for weddings

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I may not have provided a good argument, according to you.

However, I’m sure most priests will agree with me, that telling people before the wedding service that they must go to confession before receiving Holy Communion, is out of place.

Who worthy or not to receive Holy Communion is between the individual and God.

Jim
 
Because a single priest isn’t going to handle a hundred people going to confession before the wedding.

Jim
 
Maybe I missed the point above where somone was saying they told people “they must go to confession”.

A priest is certainly within his role to remind Catholics and non-Catholics of the conditions.
 
Do you really think that many people are going to willingly go to Confession? They should probably stop giving Holy Communion in events like this.
 
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Yeah you missed the thread where a lay person said it’s what they do, i.e. tell people attending the wedding they most go to confession before receiving Holy Communion, if they haven’t been to Mass.

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Jim
 
I doubt even one would go and a priest isn’t going to offer communion to people before the wedding service.

For one, most show up for the wedding 15 minutes before the service begins and are waiting for the bride and her bridesmaids to arrive.

JIm
 
Weddings are more likely apt to include fallen away Catholics than Sunday Masses (high percentage anyway)…and as I said above the “emotional” side of causes many people to give in to vanity and to receive.
 
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True, but it was more to the point there are just as many sinners in church.
 
I’ve gone to a wedding which offered Confession before hand and it was well attended.

And I was most grateful, and it saved me a trip of going back later that Saturday.

It’s a great and generous idea.
 
So the priest should stop the marriage ceremony and tell Catholics that Holy Communion is only for those who are in good standing with the Church?

They don’t even do that at Sunday Masses.

Jim
 
I’ve heard priests provide a refined reminder right after consuming the Body and Blood maybe fifty times.

It’s not “stopping the wedding”…it’s just a refined priestly remark.

It makes more sense to do this at a wedding given the mixed nature of the congregation in contrast to a Sunday Mass.

Please temper the continued gross exaggeration (“stop the marriage”)!!!
 
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JimR-OCDS said:
I doubt even one would go and a priest isn’t going to offer communion to people before the wedding service.

For one, most show up for the wedding 15 minutes before the service begins and are waiting for the bride and her bridesmaids to arrive.

JIm
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To further back this up…

…wouldn’t this be an invalid, sacrilegious confession? I thought the requirement of confession was to have done a proper examination of conscience and to be resolute to sin no more. It does not seem reasonable or plausible even an hour before a Wedding Mass.
 
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It’s a priest’s call.
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Which would make it even MORE awkward. A priest would not only be prepping for a wedding but also trying to figure out if someone who he has never seen is being sincere.

Yeah, lets do that to priests. Good idea.
 
Well I’ve read here in CAF where a person went to a funeral Mass.

As each communicant went up to receive, the priest conducted his own inquisition asking each individual if they were Catholic and in good standing with the Church ? They all received so apparently they answered truthfully.

It was ridiculous for the priest to conduct such an inquisition at communion time.

I have seen priest remind people in the pews. of the Catholic teaching on receiving Holy Communion. However, he didn’t question them as the presented themselves to receive.
I don’t have a problem with this approach.

The issue I’m addressing here, is when a lay person takes it upon themselves to tell people not to receive before they’ve gone to Confession.

Jim
 
Let’s not try to make this more complicated.

Confession is simple Sacrament. Our Father wants us to use every means to return to Him, fully and completely.

If a priest has the time, it’s a great thing that he can provide this to whomever wants to draw ever closer to God!
 
I don’t believe It for a minute, and if it did it was such a gross outlier it’s not worth our time here trying to generalize it.
 
Agree. Not a lay person’s role to walk around pestering people
 
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I believe it, for I’ve met some very cold hearted priests in my day and I doubt the person who posted it here in CAF, made it up.

Jim
 
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