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The Blessing of the Marriage
The people remain standing. The couple kneel, and the celebrant says one of the following prayers.
Most gracious God, we give you thanks for your tender love in sending Jesus Christ to come among us, to be born of a human mother, and to make the way of the cross to be the way of life. We thank you, also, for consecrating the union of two people in his name. By the power of your Holy Spirit, pour out the abundance of your blessing upon this couple. Defend them from every enemy. Lead them into all peace. Let their love for each other be a seal upon their hearts, a mantle about their shoulders, and a crown upon their foreheads. Bless them in their work and in their companionship; in their sleeping and in their waking; in their joys and in their sorrows; in their life and in their death. Finally, in your mercy, bring them to that table where your saints feast for ever in your heavenly home; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever.
Reading the liturgy reinforces the grotesqueness of calling a same sex union “marriage”. It does violence to Mark 10:6-7, makes a mockery of marriage and a laughing-stock of the putative church.
A diocese that is unable to see such a cheap counterfeit for what it is, is no longer entitled to call itself a Christian church.
This business of a congregation standing whilst invoking their god seems most appropriate, all things considered.
Typical of buffet style religion. Take only those things that you like. Leave those things that you don’t like. Those things that are just ok, garnish with ketchup.
This is cetainly not what Jesus Christ gave us. He had no problem with telling us like it is, the whole deal. Simply put, Christianity is a package deal. You take it all, or you get nothing!
The Diocese of Montreal has obviously forgotten this. Consequently, they will have nothing. In time this now false diocese will wither away, die, and cease to exist.
Our love of God is supposed to be that. What we see here is the deification of sexuality.