Mixed marriage ( maronite and a baptist)

[Saroshka]

Hello,

I’m a Maronite from Lebanon and still living in Lebanon as well, my fiancé is a baptist, but he is american and living there. We have already went through the pre cana but now he is wanting us to be married by his own pastor in a chapel. I still want the marriage to be blessed and valid in the eyes of the Catholic church , and I was told that I need a dispensation from form, but someone on this forum explained to me that I will be subject to the Maronite bishop in the States. Does that mean that I have to get that dispensation from him? Or from the local bishop where i am living now?
Although I will be living in the states when married and will be a part of a parish in Nahsville.
What are my options? and what other steps should i make? ( like… a baptism certificate etc )
In Lebanon we don’t have much protestants so mixed marriages are not that common and I realized that not many ( in my country ) has been able to give me any clear answers about it. As i have got several contradicting answers even!

Thank you

 

[malphono]

If the marriage is to take place in the US, any dispensation should be petitioned from the local Maronite bishop. I think Tennessee is under the Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon. You can send a query to the bishop here. Best to have your question answered by the chancery rather than on an anonymous internet forum.

 

[Saroshka]

Thank you Malphono. I have sent him an email, and now will wait and see!

Thanks once again.
God bless you!

 

[10gr8kids]

This isn’t much help with your question, I just wanted to advise you to know your faith well. I am in a mixed faith marriage also, and it can work even though it’s difficult at times. Just know that Protestants can make convincing arguments against Catholicism if you don’t know how to explain and defend your faith. If you haven’t already, read a lot of Catholic apologetics so you will be able to answer common objections to our faith. Good luck and God bless.

 

[Saroshka]

10gr8kids, I know, I have been reading plenty of books to know how to defend catholics, especially since my fiancé knows a lot of history and have read too many books about most denominations, and you are correct, they do make convincing arguments and it always makes me so sad when I don’t have anything i can reply with due to the fact that I don’t have much history knowledge or much to reply with. Is there any particular books you’d recommend?
I have been praying lots to saint Monica, in the hope that she will him and convert him to Catholicism because I doubt I can make him see things in my own.
May i ask if your spouse ever consider converting? and what about the children, how do they deal with things themselves?

God bless you