Calling all Catholics?

Re: Calling all Catholics?

• bride_from_the_burgh

  

  September 2009

  We looked into doing this, but aren't. It depends on your relationship with your priest whether or not they will do it. We talked to one church who said no and the other who said yes. However it was going to cost $$

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• sarlah

  

  September 2009

  I was going to say exactly what Tracy said. If you both belong to a church you may have an easier time, and it just depends. Exactly like Tracy said, some will say no and some will say yes. There doesn't seem to be any clear rules about it.

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• natalee215

  

  September 2009

  Yes.  They don't like it, but they'll do it.  My dad asked in my original parish & they told us we have to go to classes, blah, blah, blah.  I said no thanks.  Bri's mom asked in her church & they agreed.  You have to get your baptismal docs & meet with the priest.  He told us he'll do it after Saturday night mass (5PM mass.)  We figure we'll make a event of it & go to dinner with our parents.  We would totally skip it but we want our kids to go to Catholic school without a problem.

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• natalee215

  

  September 2009

  Also, it's better to ask after you're already legally married.  The issue my dad had was that the priest was insisting that we do the Catholic one first.  Once you're already married, they can't argue about that fact.

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• chosen175 member

  

  September 2009

  Hey Natalee, I've gone to Catholic school most of my life and there were LOTS of kids who weren't Catholic. Being legally married, Baptized, etc isn't really a pre-requisite... at least not around here. What you're looking at is a convalidation ceremony. FI and I are both Catholic, but not practicing. We don't belong to a parish, and out of the 3 churches in our area, 2 of them said "sure, no problem" to doing it and the other one wanted us to become members first.

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