Religion: Interfaith Wedding Ceremony Ideas

Interfaith Wedding Ceremony Ideas

Written by Heather Greene

These days, it's becoming more and more common for couples of different religious backgrounds to get married. Many religions have embraced this fact-- in two of repparttar

four major Jewish sects, interfaith marriages are regularly performed, most Protestant clergy are willing to officiant interfaith marriages, and more and more Catholic priests, Conservative Judaism rabbis, and Islamic leaders are conducting interfaith ceremonies. Ask other interfaith couples in your area for recommendations if you're having a hard time finding someone yourself. Or, you could have your wedding performed by a non-religious officiant. You will still have repparttar 126931

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same as yours.

It may not be easy pulling off an interfaith ceremony. Your relatives may be upset that you are straying from tradition and even you and your fiance may have some different ideas about how repparttar 126934 ceremony should be run and which traditions and rituals should be part of repparttar 126935 ceremony. You will need to take a lot of time to consider exactly what marrying someone of a different faith means to you and how you will handle your differences on repparttar 126936 wedding day and beyond. With some compromising and understanding though, we're sure you're interfaith wedding will go on without a hitch.

Since there is no traditional interfaith ceremony format, we can not recommend one that you should follow, but below you will find some tips for how to incorporate two religions into your ceremony.

Involving Both Families-- Chances are, if anyone is upset about you having an interfaith marriage it's repparttar 126937 older generation-- your parents and grandparents. The best thing you can do to help them come to terms with your decision and understand it is to have both families participate in repparttar 126938 ceremony. Unity candles are a wonderful idea to involve both parents and in this case, repparttar 126939 candle lighting will have extra symbolism as you are not only joining your two families, but also your two faiths. At many interfaith marriages involving Christian and Jewish grooms and brides you will notice that repparttar 126940 couple is taking a cue from repparttar 126941 Jewish religion and having both parents walk repparttar 126942 bride and groom down repparttar 126943 aisle. This is sure to make both sets of parents feel special on repparttar 126944 big day.

A Matter Of The End Being Nigh?

Written by A K Whitehead

A Matter Of The End Being Nigh?For years, decades even, we have been assailed by "prophets", conference speakers, writers and similar to effect that "the end is nigh". In other words, that we are living in end times, that is, end end times. The Second Coming will be here before you can get home today!!
The Track Record Should we believe these people? On a probability basis answer must be resoundingly negative. Christian have been assailed for two thousand centuries by people who claimed that end is imminent. They were all wrong! Even so outstanding a disciple as Paul of Tarsus was wrong. Look at (probably) very first letter he wrote (or at least, first letter of his of which we have a copy, First Letter to Thessalonians, commonly dated to AD 50). This reflects his current view that Second Coming would probably happen before tea-time!But it did not.
Clearly someone, somewhere, sometime is going to be right. Eventually. But in meantime...?
Which begs question as to how long meantime will be, and that simply puts original question in a different form.
So what grounds are there for believing that people today know better that Paul did in his day - Paul who was so very, very near to God? Does someone, anyone have answer?
Who Has The Answer? Well, Jesus told us who has answer. Not himself, in his humanity, walking earth: "No-one knows that day or hour, not even angels in heaven, nor Son, but only Father." (Matthew 24:36)
If Jesus himself did not know, and if he has told us quite clearly that no one else knows either, why do we become so preoccupied in trying to predict Second Coming? In trying to do something which he has implied is both impossible for us and is not our concern? If it was our concern Father would not have hidden it and kept it from us

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