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Susansmum
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I’m posting this here, mostly because I am impatient and have discovered that some of the info I gave my priest was actually incorrect.
I have spoken to my priest, and he is getting back to me, but I am still confused that we wer both on the same page as to what I was asking.
I was baptised and confirmed in the Anglican (church of England) faith when I was 11, since then I pretty much fell away from the church, and got into new age stuff.
I met my hubby to be, who was baptised Mormon, (this is what I didn’t know whine I spoke to my priest, or else I did know and forgot) as I asked hubby later.
He was only baptised Mormon to satisfy his grandmother I believe…he pretty much grew up with not much exposure to church or religion at all. He lost a dear friend (not quite sister in law) who left behind a 7 month old when he was in his early 20’s and there was and has been a lot of anger towards God and he is a professed atheist.
We were married by a celebrant - not a priest and in an old church but one that was actually classed as a ‘wedding centre’ so a civil marriage in other words.
I lost my mother when I was pregnant with my first child suddenly and it made me question my life and such, long story short 2 or so years later I found myself completing RCIA and being received into the Catholic Church.
When I spoke to the priest at the time, he felt that since we weren’t catholic at the time of our marriage, it is still a valid but not sacramental marriage so I was ok. Neither of us were married before, and there was nothing to prevent us from being validly married.
So that was that.
Fast forward to now, and I was enquiring about how to go about getting the sacramental part done and if at all possible, and find out that we may not have a valid marriage?
My husband will never consent to a ceremony in the church in front of a priest, at the most he will sign a form.
My question is, do we actually have a valid marriage? If yes, Is it possible to make it sacramental without him actually doing anything other than signing a form, and if not valid is it possible to fix this without him doing anything other than signing a form?
My priest even mentioned something about us taking our vows and he wouldn’t even have to answer anything to do with the God part, but there is pretty much no way he will set foot in a church to have our marriage recognised by the church, he finds it offensive that he would need to…
I have spoken to my priest, and he is getting back to me, but I am still confused that we wer both on the same page as to what I was asking.
I was baptised and confirmed in the Anglican (church of England) faith when I was 11, since then I pretty much fell away from the church, and got into new age stuff.
I met my hubby to be, who was baptised Mormon, (this is what I didn’t know whine I spoke to my priest, or else I did know and forgot) as I asked hubby later.
He was only baptised Mormon to satisfy his grandmother I believe…he pretty much grew up with not much exposure to church or religion at all. He lost a dear friend (not quite sister in law) who left behind a 7 month old when he was in his early 20’s and there was and has been a lot of anger towards God and he is a professed atheist.
We were married by a celebrant - not a priest and in an old church but one that was actually classed as a ‘wedding centre’ so a civil marriage in other words.
I lost my mother when I was pregnant with my first child suddenly and it made me question my life and such, long story short 2 or so years later I found myself completing RCIA and being received into the Catholic Church.
When I spoke to the priest at the time, he felt that since we weren’t catholic at the time of our marriage, it is still a valid but not sacramental marriage so I was ok. Neither of us were married before, and there was nothing to prevent us from being validly married.
So that was that.
Fast forward to now, and I was enquiring about how to go about getting the sacramental part done and if at all possible, and find out that we may not have a valid marriage?
My husband will never consent to a ceremony in the church in front of a priest, at the most he will sign a form.
My question is, do we actually have a valid marriage? If yes, Is it possible to make it sacramental without him actually doing anything other than signing a form, and if not valid is it possible to fix this without him doing anything other than signing a form?
My priest even mentioned something about us taking our vows and he wouldn’t even have to answer anything to do with the God part, but there is pretty much no way he will set foot in a church to have our marriage recognised by the church, he finds it offensive that he would need to…
