Catholic Wedding Convalidation Ceremony

In a relatively small ceremony with only family and a few close friends present aaron and kelly married before a justice of the peace.

Catholic wedding convalidation ceremony. But because celebrating the church s official. A convalidation ceremony is the validation of a marriage. The convalidation could be one of two types.

If a couple s wedding took place outside of the church convalidation is necessary for the marital union to be formally recognized by the catholic church. Whether the rite takes place within or outside of mass it includes a liturgy of. The following text is intended to give a basic overview of the convalidation process.

The baptisms were not a problem. The church very much wants to assist these couples who later want to enter into valid catholic marriage and it offers them pastoral and spiritual support as they need it. As with the marriage preparation some of the ceremonial details will depend upon the individual couple.

Government but not under the requirements of a catholic wedding ceremony according to canon law which all catholics are bound to obey. A catholic wedding ceremony traditionally includes a full mass and communion all of which can take up to an hour. What will the ceremony be like.

Here is the typical sequence of a catholic wedding within mass. But a convalidation is a true celebration of marriage and so it follows the catholic church s order of celebrating matrimony. A convalidation ceremony is a remedy for a marriage which has been impeded by some canonical defect.

Order of celebrating matrimony within mass. Kelly s catholic mother troubled by these events kept urging the couple to have their babies baptized and their marriage convalidated by the church. You ll find some notes for using this chart as well as alternate forms of the order of celebrating matrimony e g without mass at the bottom of the page.