Nuptial blessing in Traditional Latin Wedding Mass

[DavidJoseph]

Last weekend I attended my first Catholic Nuptial Mass in the Tridentine rite. It was awesome, but there’s something I’ve been wondering about.

The Nuptial Blessing prayers were especially focused on the bride, asking God to protect her from all “forbidden embraces” and similar immoral activities. But why is there nothing in the prayers asking that same thing for the groom? Women aren’t the only ones who get tempted to commit adulterous acts, thoughts, etc.! Being a man, I know what scum we can be ( ), so we probably need the Nuptial Blessing to focus on us even more than the ladies! Thoughts?

 

[newyorkcatholic]

Good question! I’d like to hear thoughts on this too.

 

[DavidJoseph]

Anybody?

 

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[Skeptic92]

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Last weekend I attended my first Catholic Nuptial Mass in the Tridentine rite. It was awesome, but there’s something I’ve been wondering about.

The Nuptial Blessing prayers were especially focused on the bride, asking God to protect her from all “forbidden embraces” and similar immoral activities. But why is there nothing in the prayers asking that same thing for the groom? Women aren’t the only ones who get tempted to commit adulterous acts, thoughts, etc.! Being a man, I know what scum we can be ( ), so we probably need the Nuptial Blessing to focus on us even more than the ladies! Thoughts?

You have to think of the Social Context in which the Tridentine Mass was written, the 15th/16th century, it was thought that women were much more susceptable to the Devils temptations mainly coming from the story of Genesis, Eve and the forbidden fruit etc. It just comes from the thought of the time more then any deep theological and moral reason, it’s all in the social context of the time