Question #1:

Will a blessed Catholic marriage still be recognised in the Catholic Church?

My partner and I have recently got engaged and are looking to book a venue. My partner is Catholic (non-practicing) and I am Church of England (although was never christened). It is important to my partner and his family that we have a Catholic ceremony and I am more than happy with this. I am worried about getting married in a Catholic church as I dont want to feel uncomfortable on my wedding day by not knowing what to do and the words to the hymns etc.

Would a Catholic priest marry us being that I am not Catholic and my parter, although still has strong Catholic beliefs doesnt go to mass anymore?

I have heard that it is possible to get married outside of the Catholic church but then have the marriage blessed at a later date? Would this blessed marriage then be recognised in the Catholic Church?

Please help!

Question #2:

How do you cite songs in a wedding program?

I'm listing classical music and christian hymns in the wedding program. What is the proper way to list these songs? For example:
"Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" Wyeth

Question #3:

Can anyone tell me the lyrics to the hymn The Love we share?

I'm having this hymn at my wedding in 4 weeks time and I have misplaced the lyrics for the order of service. The hymn is sung to the tune of Danny Boy and I believe the words were written within the last 5 years so may not be very well known.

Question #4:

our town- thornton wilder a play in three acts please help?

. To begin each of the play's acts, the Stage Manager sets the scene and __________.
(Points: 3)
gives stage directions

delivers a monologue

sings the hymn "Blessed Be the Tie That Binds"

holds a question-and-answer session



2. Beginning with the play's debut and continuing to today's performances, the set and props of Our Town have been minimal. What is the main reason for this approach to staging?
(Points: 3)
It challenges actors to learn new ways to act.

It allows viewers to imagine a town that seems perfect to them.

It lets the play be performed outdoors.

It keeps the play from becoming dated.



3. Throughout Our Town, the Stage Manager serves as __________.
(Points: 3)
the voice of the audience

a narrator and guide for the audience

the villain in the play

a parent to both George and Emily



4. The town of Grover's Corners is best described as __________.
(Points: 3)
depressing

puzzling

dangerous

conventional



5. Modernism is a literary movement that urged writers to find new ways to tell stories. Readers can see a modernist influence on Wilder's play in his __________.
(Points: 3)
choice to include the wedding between George Gibbs and Emily Webb, the girl next door

choice to set the play in a small fictional New England town

decision to depict a typical spring day in 1901 in Act I

decision to add a question-and-answer session between characters and audience members



6. In Act I, Wilder depicts the interaction between George and Emily in order to __________.
(Points: 3)
foreshadow their future romantic relationship

reveal George's conceited and stuck-up nature

show that Emily is not as smart as George thinks

demonstrate the power of the Stage Manager



7. What question do the Gibbses and Webbs ask themselves on Emily and George's wedding day?
(Points: 3)
Will Simon Stimson ruin the wedding?

Will the ceremony be boring and long?

Does Emily really love George?

Are George and Emily too young to be married?



8. In Act II, the flashback that shows George and Emily's discussion at the soda shop is included to show that __________.
(Points: 3)
George and Emily are making a mistake

Emily thinks George is conceited and stuck-up

George and Emily are meant for one another

George is a very good baseball player



9. Which word or phrase best describes how Emily and George feel as they wait for the wedding ceremony to begin?
(Points: 3)
overjoyed at their marriage

upset with each other

peaceful

worried



10. The living characters express their concern for the dead in Act III. The dead consider this concern __________.
(Points: 3)
an amusing act of memory

a puzzling way to mourn

a foolish waste of time

a moving show of affection



11. When Emily relives her 12th birthday, she has something the living do not have: knowledge of what happens in the future. Having this knowledge means that Emily knows __________.
(Points: 3)
what the audience knows

what George knows

what her mother knows

what her father knows



12. Which best expresses the play's theme, given the way Emily says good-bye to earth before returning to the cemetery?
(Points: 3)
Few find true love, and none can buy it.

Ordinary, daily life is more wonderful than people recognize.

There is no pain after death, so it is better to die than to live.

Most people thoroughly enjoy and appreciate each day of life.



13. Why does George change his mind about going to college?
(Points: 3)
College costs too much money.

He wants to stay in Grover's Corners to marry Emily.

Dr. Gibbs doesn't want him to leave Grover's Corners.

It is not a college for farmers.



14. Why did Thornton Wilder set the play in Grover's Corners?
(Points: 3)
He wanted the audience to feel anger.

He expected the audience to feel sadness.

Grover's Corners would inspire a feeling of nostalgia.

Grover's Corners is a place of much joy and no sadness.



15. What does the Stage Manager know about events in Grover's Corners?
(Points: 3)
He knows only about events of the past and present.

He knows only about events of the present and future.

He knows about events of the past, present, and future.

He knows only what is happening in the present.



16.
How does Thornton Wilder make the Stage Manager a memorable, likable, and

Question #5:

What would be a good contemporary christian song for a male soloist to sing at my wedding service?

I hate classical music and old style hymns.

I want something different, but still appropriate. For example, the processional songs (groom up, bride up, exit) are all going to be Kenny G songs.

I was thinking maybe "Sanctuary", "Because of Who You Are", "You are my All in All", or "Measure of a Man" (the last by MercyMe).
Or maybe one that you'd hear at a retreat for young adults, like "Romans 16:19", for example.

What would you suggest? I really have no idea and was looking for some help.

Question #6:

Fellow atheists - when you go to church for a wedding, baptism or funeral....?

I'm sure we all agree that we're there either to celebrate or commemorate something, so take part on that basis.

But what do we all do about the "worship" parts of the service?

I was at a wedding a few weeks ago (Church of England) and I sang along with all the hymns (some of them are quite nice)....but I felt awkward when everyone else got down on their knees to pray. I didn't, I just sat quietly....but I felt very conspicuous! And I know that there were other non-believing members of the congregation who got down on their knees and joined in the prayers.

So, I'm interested in how all you guys approach such matters.

My ethos is to celebrate, but I don't do worship. Ever.

Question #7:

Catholic Mass in Latin?

If I ever get married I'd like to have my wedding Mass spoken entirely in Latin - and have a choir singing Latin hymns. So beautiful, I think. But is it possible to get a church to do that? The choir I think I could pull off, but I might have some difficulty in getting a priest to read an all-Latin Mass.

Question #8:

Order of Service - Wedding?

What do i put in the order of service.. never been married before. Never been to a wedding with a order of service. do i write step by step of whats happening or do i only write the hymns words!? aaah

Question #9:

Ideas for wedding hymns?

Im trying to think of two hymns to play at our wedding and just cant seem to decide. any ideas?

Question #10:

Catholic wedding help?

Is the recessional hymn sung before, during or after the witnesses are signing the registry?????
elp
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Question #11:

wedding ceremony music...?

Any opinion on incorporating the hymn, "Nothing but the Blood of Jesus" into a wedding ceremony?

I really like the hymn, but I haven't seen it used in any other weddings and I don't know if it is really appropriate for a wedding.

Question #12:

Not sure whether I want a church wedding or one at a grand hotel, what do you think?

I'm Agnostic, my partner is an Atheist (Even though we were both Christened as babies)
I like the beauty of a church wedding, and it looks prettier than hotel weddings, but we aren't religious, at all, and hate all the hymns and things.

Would we be better going to a hotel that holds weddings, and just making sure it is well decorated, instead of a bit plain and boring like some are?

xx

Question #13:

What do you think about this ceremony music?

I am getting married in June and I am trying to sort everything out as soon as possible. We are not getting married in a church as I would prefer something really intimate and meaningful in a civil ceremony where we don't have to have hymns and things like that.

Anyway I have some music choices that I really like and what I think are beautiful pieces of music. They are:

Prelude possibilities:
Air on a G String by Johann Sebastian Bach
Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven
Arioso by Johann Sebastian Bach
Ava Maria by Schubert
Fur Elise by Beethoven

Processional (When Im walking down the aisle):
Canon in D by Johann Pacelbel

Im not sure yet what I want as Recessional music for afterwards yet though, I want something that obviously fits with the rest of the music and I don't want the traditional wedding march by Mendelssohn. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Also about the Moonlight Sonata, do you think this is too depressing for a wedding?

Thanks :)
We are getting married in a beautiful hotel with acres of forest and gardens around it. Just in case this information is useful lol

Question #14:

i am having a wedding ceremony in the hotel, can the registrar perform the ceremony like a church wedding?

with hymns etc

Question #15:

I'm getting married in June and a bit stuck on the order of service?

I'm not sure what to have for the hymns, prayers, what order they go in.. I have never been to a wedding .. it feels like a need a whole wedding script! can anyone help/recommend and hymns, prayers, readings?

Any help would be appreciated!

Thankyou in advance

Question #16:

Does this not prove that cow meat is permisible in hinduism ?

RigVeda book 10 Hymn 28 verse 3 it says "0 Indra, Bulls they dress for thee, and of these (meat) thou eatest when Maghavan, with food thou art invited". In Rig veda Book 10 Hymn 86 verse 13 says “indra will eat thy bulls, thy dear oblation that effecteth much. Supreme is Indra over all"

These verses indicates that Indra, a god of vedic age, used to eat meat.

Also another god of vedic age, Agni, is referred to as "flesh-eater' in vedas.

For example, in Rig Veda bock 10 Hymn 16 verse 10 it is said I choose as god for Father-worship Agni, FLESH Eater, who hath past within your dwellings". In RigVeda Vivah sukta book 10 Hymn 85 verse 13, it mentions that during marriage ceremony the guests were fed with the meat. it says “in Magha days are oxen slain, in Arjunis they wed the bride" Atherva veda book 9 Hymn 4 verses 37-38-39 gives _expression that cow's milk and cow's meat are most tasty among all other foods. It says "The man should not eat before the guest who is Brahmin versed in holy lore When the guest hath eaten he should eat. Now the sweetest portion, the produce of cow, milk or flesh, that verily he should not eat (before the guest)" If you read Mahabharata Shanti Parva chapter 29, a story of greatness of a king called Rantideva is described It is said that he was very rich and generous, and used to feed thousands of guests. The paragraph reads as follows “All the vessels and the plates, in Rantideva's palace, for holding food and other articles, all the jugs and other pots, the pan and plates and cups, were of gold. On those nights during which the guests used to live in Rantideva's abode, twenty thousand and one hundred kine {cows} had to be slaughtered. Yet even on such occasions, the cooks, decked in ear-rings, used to proclaim (amongst those that sat for supper) “There is abundant of soup, take as much as you wish, but of flesh we have not as much today as on former occasions" This shows that even after slaughtering 20,100 cows, meat used to fall short on some occasions.

Question #17:

Wedding advice: how do we compromise between a religious and non-religious wedding?

I am not a religious believer; for my fiance, faith is deeply important. We know this may cause some issues in our marriage, but for the most part it is correct to say that we both fundamentally believe the other to be a good person despite our religious differences (it helps that we were raised in the same tradition). My question is, how do we compromise on a marriage ceremony? I have only just learned that he has always expected to be married in a church, with traditional vows, hymns, Bible readings, perhaps even a communion! I definitely do NOT want this! For his sake, I am more than happy to do what is necessary for the marriage to be theologically sound - be married in a church by a clergyman, say a set of vows approved by the church, etc. But I'm positively uncomfortable having what I see as the "window dressing" of liturgical readings and communion and hymns. My fiance agrees that these things are not necessary to make it a marriage in God's eyes, given his understanding of religion. But he still just presumes that we'll do all this stuff. I really, really don't want to. I feel like the whole thing should be a joyful occasion, not a stuffy old church service. And, more importantly, I'm just uncomfortable endorsing a lot of stuff I don't really believe. Have other people faced similar issues? If so, what seemed to be a reasonable compromise ceremony?

Question #18:

Would it be alright to invite an orthodox Jewish person to a Catholic wedding?

I'm helping my bff with her wedding guest list. She happens to know a very nice couple who happen to be orthodox Jews. We would like to add them to the guest list but we are unsure if they would like to come due to my friend being orthodox catholic. There will be a lot of prayer and hymns involved in the ceremony and we don't want them to be uncomfortable during the wedding. We would really like them to come but we aren't sure if their religion allows it. If someone could shed some light on the subject it would be very helpful.
They don't have to participate in the prayers or hymns or whatever, we would like them to bear witness though...

Question #19:

I need a script for a wedding scence between romeo and juliet.?

i need to be scripting the wedding. In the play Friar Lawrence performs the wedding outside the prying eyes of Shakespeare's readers. You are to research your sources and design the entire service including the Friar's words, Romeo and Juliet's vows, the witnesses' roles, any hymns sung during the service, special objects, any legal or financial conditions that must be considered... after all, we want this relationship to last this time! Make sure it is all legal in the eyes of heaven and the law. HELP

Question #20:

Wedding ceremony layout?

What is the order of events that you had or are having for your ceremony? I dont know if I dont have enough. We are writing our own vows, having a sand ceremony instead of a candle ceremony, then I have a person reading a poem. Should I have another poem? (I dont want anyone singing and it is not a religious ceremony, so no hymns or prayers)





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