catholic brides- anoyone not doing the unity candle?

tricia3381 Posted: May 06, 2007 06:08 PM

catholic brides- anoyone not doing the unity candle?

Fh and i just went over our ceremony stuff for our nuptial mass and we'd rather do the hands prayer instead of the unity candle. anyone else not doing the unity candle?

ant n tilde Posted: May 06, 2007 06:11 PM

Re: catholic brides- anoyone not doing the unity candle?

nope - its not part of the catholic mass

just a nice touch that some people like to add!

we are not doing it just our vows! I am sure they wont have a problem with the hands prayer ( although every parish is different)

tricia3381 Posted: May 06, 2007 07:01 PM

Re: catholic brides- anoyone not doing the unity candle?

i know we dont have to do it, but i feel like since we're not doing it we should do something in place of it. also fh and i loved doing the hands ceremony during precana.

AllJoy Posted: May 06, 2007 07:06 PM

Re: catholic brides- anoyone not doing the unity candle?

Posted by ant n tilde

nope - its not part of the catholic mass

just a nice touch that some people like to add!

we are not doing it just our vows! I am sure they wont have a problem with the hands prayer ( although every parish is different)

Since I am just doing a ceremony do you think I can do the unity candle and have the hands prayer read?

donegal419 Posted: May 06, 2007 07:07 PM

Re: catholic brides- anoyone not doing the unity candle?

we did the unity candle.... i woudl ask your parish about the hands prayer thing. . . . some parishes don't allow you to stray too far from the Mass. .. .. most parishes allow you to do a unity candle because it's not added words or scripture.. you jsut light a candle. they may not let you do a spoken thing like the hands prayer because it is not part of the Mass or otherwise approved by the Church.

AllJoy Posted: May 06, 2007 07:08 PM

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Posted by donegal419

we did the unity candle.... i woudl ask your parish about the hands prayer thing. . . . some parishes don't allow you to stray too far from the Mass. .. .. most parishes allow you to do a unity candle because it's not added words or scripture.. you jsut light a candle. they may not let you do a spoken thing like the hands prayer because it is not part of the Mass or otherwise approved by the Church.

Thanks for the info Karen.

ant n tilde Posted: May 06, 2007 07:10 PM

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Posted by tricia3381

i know we dont have to do it, but i feel like since we're not doing it we should do something in place of it. also fh and i loved doing the hands ceremony during precana.

i think that would be a nice touch! hope it works out!

ant n tilde Posted: May 06, 2007 07:12 PM

Re: catholic brides- anoyone not doing the unity candle?

Posted by AllJoy

Posted by ant n tilde

nope - its not part of the catholic mass

just a nice touch that some people like to add!

we are not doing it just our vows! I am sure they wont have a problem with the hands prayer ( although every parish is different)

Since I am just doing a ceremony do you think I can do the unity candle and have the hands prayer read?

it depends on the parish but i think that would be okay insome parishes. . . I am having a ceremony also - which means they just cut out the communion but i dont see why they wouldnt let you do both the candle and hand ceremony

(unless like the PP said, your particular church doesnt allow ANY additions)