Marrying a Baptist Christian

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Getting married outside the Catholic church will make the marriage an “attempted marriage” and thus will be not valid.

To validate your marriage, if done after the fact, caution, is convalidation for a mixed marriage.

Can you receive communion? Well, are you having marital relations with a woman that is not technically your wife in the eyes of God? If so, that is known as fornication. You may repent of that but if there is a living situation that is consistent, then it may be a perpetual situation in which absolution, if the situation is known, may be denied (retained).

Your future wife, as a baptized christian (assuming her baptism was valid, with being a Baptist, they are very much sticklers for baptism even if some Baptists don’t have a full picture of baptism, it is most often the case that it is a valid baptism), entering into a marriage could be sacramental, not just natural.

Yes, go talk to your deacon/priest.

One last thought, do not for any reason break your engagement simply because of a difference in religion. Think of God’s providence … maybe you were meant to marry this woman, maybe it’s God’s plan to bring her into the fullness of the truth!

I married in a restaurant, totally invalid, married a non-baptized buddhist, so very natural, after coming back to the church and realizing what I was meant to be as a father, convalidated my marriage, and then my wife went through rcia just this past easter, now my marriage got an automatic upgrade to sacramental! whoohooo! God is Great.

Best of luck and Blessings.
 
Oh! Yeah, a previous poster made the suggestion, I thought it was so great, I wanted to repost …

Pray Together!

Write down a list of the things you find most important in your marriage.
Have her write down a list of the things she finds most important.

Mix the lists, those in common, and those that are different, and pray to strengthen the common and to shorten the gap between the differences, God will make sure to give you clear guidance.
 
If you were marrying inside the Catholic church, the priest would already be asking all the questions and doing all the things needed to ensure your marriage is valid. It is when you marry outside the Catholic church that you need to take the time and get that dispensation because there isn’t a priest going through all the necessary steps to ensure it is valid.

I agree with everyone else, talk to your priest. I’m sure he will be very helpful.
 
KatyCatholic said:
Getting married outside the Catholic church will make the marriage an “attempted marriage” and thus will be not valid.

To validate your marriage, if done after the fact, caution, is convalidation for a mixed marriage.

Can you receive communion? Well, are you having marital relations with a woman that is not technically your wife in the eyes of God? If so, that is known as fornication. You may repent of that but if there is a living situation that is consistent, then it may be a perpetual situation in which absolution, if the situation is known, may be denied (retained)
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Unless he is granted a dispensation from the bishop to marry outside the Catholic Church and to marry a non-Catholic. If those conditions are met, it is a valid marriage and he certainly make receive the sacraments as long as he is in a state of grace.
 
Yep. That’s the boat I’m in. Fights over contraception, baptism of children… mixed faith marriages can be agonizing.
 
twf said:
Yep. That’s the boat I’m in. Fights over contraception, baptism of children… mixed faith marriages can be agonizing.
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My mom was so lucky in this respect as my dad just agreed to everything she wanted. She was Catholic, he was Presbyterian and he deferred to her because it was the only way they could marry in 1957.

Sorry for your struggles, but it’s so worth it!
 
Yes! A valid marriage is a valid marriage! That’s when the OP can receive communion (given the conditions of this as described in general).
 
Jurichico

See your priest! Without that, the short answer to your questions is NO.

If you are both devout and practicing your faiths, then you need to sit down togeather and seriously talk about how this will work when you are married. And what happens when children come along.

The Church generally recognizes Baptist Baptism but Baptists generally don’t recognize Catholic Baptism. Some Baptists don’t recognize Catholics as Christian. When you marry this woman, you inherit her family and their attitudes. If she is active in her religious community, you willinherit their attitudes also. What are they?

This can be very good and it can be very bad. Both of you need to look at this closely.

God Bless
Patrick
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phoage said:
The Church generally recognizes Baptist Baptism but Baptists generally don’t recognize Catholic Baptism.
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Baptists often don’t recognize a baptism from the next Baptist church over . …

But then again they may not recognize their own from the year before if you sinned since then. Most reject the notion of a single Baptism. (Thus “and we all got rebaptized, whether we needed it or not.” The Mississippi Squirrel Revival )

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