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Originally Posted by OBW
But that is not the purpose of this post. While the flow of the meeting was somewhat expected, although not significantly enough scripted for anyone to know what to do next at a couple of points, there was something missing. As is typical for a LC wedding, it was about 95 percent about the metaphor of Christ and his bride, the Church, and not much about the young couple. But it was not among the more extreme LC weddings that I have seen in the past.
Well, when I said "not much about the young couple," that is not entirely true. There was an “open mic” time (without an actual microphone in that small space) and, with one exception, it was the relatives that spoke. They did mostly speak about the couple, or one or the other of them. But mixed in were the thoughts of their marriage being “for Christ and the church.”
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Funny thing.
I went to a wedding this weekend as well.
Roman Catholic couple. Very devout, although each in very different ways.
Bride's brother was the officiating priest.
His comments, when rarely applicable to the couple themselves, were more or less condeming of the groom and his charismatic Catholic family and their "home church."
And he said an awful lot about "Christ and the Church."
It was all terribly offensive, really, especially the pretenses made to unity with others while so strongly maintaining an exclusive table.