The Marriage Service

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I am engaged to marry. Both my fiance and myself are converts from Protestantism. No one in our families is Catholic. I would like the marriage service from the 1962 missal. She thinks that would be too alienating for our low-church Protestant families and that she would in turn feel alienated from her family; they would get upset and so she would get upset. She asked if we could somehow have the marriage service from the 1962 missal but with greater use of English. Is this possible? I know the 1967 relaxations on use of Latin and other elements of the Mass allowed English and the like but I didn’t know if English was allowed freer use now. I would appreciate your thoughts and comments on our situation and whether or not English is allowed to be used more freely in the marriage rite and whether we should use it.

Thanks,

Adam

 

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I am engaged to marry. Both my fiance and myself are converts from Protestantism. No one in our families is Catholic. I would like the marriage service from the 1962 missal. She thinks that would be too alienating for our low-church Protestant families and that she would in turn feel alienated from her family; they would get upset and so she would get upset. She asked if we could somehow have the marriage service from the 1962 missal but with greater use of English. Is this possible? I know the 1967 relaxations on use of Latin and other elements of the Mass allowed English and the like but I didn’t know if English was allowed freer use now. I would appreciate your thoughts and comments on our situation and whether or not English is allowed to be used more freely in the marriage rite and whether we should use it.

Thanks,

Adam

Most of the traditional nuptial rite is actually in English, so it should be that alienating. Also, you don’t actually have to have the Mass. Although it is preferable to have Mass straight after the nuptial blessing…