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Dimanche 15 Août 2004 : Nouveautés... |
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It gives advise on preparation of your wedding in the Catholic chruch in France. We give hereby a short resume and some advices for English speaking people wishing to attend to a Catholic wedding in a French speaking country.
The first think to do to have access to a catholic wedding is to the visit its parish (paroisse) where usually you should find proper directions on how to prepare and celebrate a wedding. The French Confederation of Bishops now reccomend a year delay to be able to have a full preparation courses, including collective meeting and personnal interviews with a minister. At least one must be baptised in the Catholic church. A Confirmation in the Holy Spirit is furthermore recommended. If the other one belongs to another religion, you will need to discuss about it with the minister and obtain an authorisation by the bishop. How to prepare the celebration ? You will find a full selection of lectures extracted from the Holy Bible in the French part of this site. The most famous ones are also traducted here. How to celebrate a French-English wedding ? You can mix French and English lectures, providing you provide a bi-lingual document that gives access to the main elements of the wedding. Marriage Preparation Centers gives you the opportunity to meet married couples and exchange with others on the reasons and values you seek in a catholic wedding. CPM was founded in the 1940's and now counts more than 6000 couples in France and 10.000 worldwide (see FICPM for contacts in Canada, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Hungry, Tchek Republic, Crotia, Madagascar, ...). PMC stands for Portail du Mariage Catholic (Portal of the Catholic Wedding). The French version also speaks about the engagement, how to get engaged , couple's life, and links to a site on Catholic faith .PMC was developped in 1999 by the National Federation of CPM (Mariage preparation Centers) a French non profit organisation which ensures a full inductive preparation for French speaking couples. The NFCPM is a full menber of the FICPM (International Federation of MPC). FICPM was confirmed as a proper NGO by the NGO Family Committee in Vienna. If I do not live in France, can I come and have a wedding in a French Catholic church ? Rather not. We advise you to prepare and celebrate your wedding in your present country. You can also read carefully the above conditions (one year recommanded preparation,...) and see if you fulfill it. You can always come for your honeymoon in Paris, afterwards... We will be happy to welcome you. You find a form to contact us here. For data outside France, visit the FICPM pages. |
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