Author Topic: Priest Wearing Ring (Read 5116 times)

TKGS · « **Reply #5 on:** June 08, 2015, 01:03:39 PM »

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Passing down a keepsake like a wedding ring is a wonderful tradition. Tell the others to get a life.

First, it would never have occurred to me to remove my father's wedding ring before burying him. But "passing down" a wedding ring to a priest is rather a dead end, isn't it?

Ladislaus · « **Reply #6 on:** June 08, 2015, 01:16:30 PM »

Quote from: TKGS

But "passing down" a wedding ring to a priest is rather a dead end, isn't it?

One might certainly hope so.

Capt McQuigg · « **Reply #7 on:** June 08, 2015, 04:58:26 PM »

Quote from: Marlelar

Passing down a keepsake like a wedding ring is a wonderful tradition. Tell the others to get a life.

He could wear it as a necklace and the ring could be tucked out of sight and not be a cause for scandal.

Then again, it's the novus ordo - what scandal? Those guys in the novus ordo have to be seen to be believed!

Dolores · « **Reply #8 on:** June 08, 2015, 06:37:30 PM »

Quote from: Capt McQuigg

Quote from: Marlelar
Passing down a keepsake like a wedding ring is a wonderful tradition. Tell the others to get a life.

He could wear it as a necklace and the ring could be tucked out of sight and not be a cause for scandal.

Such a thing would only be necessary if the mere act of wearing a ring was actually the sin of scandle. According the Angelic Doctor, the sin of scandle occurs in two ways:

1) when a man intends, by evil words or deeds, to lead another into sin
2) when a man commits an act that, by its very nature, leads another into sin, even if the man did not so intend

I don't see how the mere act of wearing what amounts to a family heirloom falls into either of these categories. There's no evidence that he's intending to lead anyone into sin by wearing the ring, and I do not believe that anyone can honestly say that the act of wearing a ring does, by its very nature, lead anyone into sin.

Miseremini · « **Reply #9 on:** June 08, 2015, 07:35:19 PM »

Quote from: Marlelar

Passing down a keepsake like a wedding ring is a wonderful tradition. Tell the others to get a life.

I agree wholeheartedly !

When Pius X became a bishop he offered his ring for his mother to kiss.
She slapped/pushed his hand aside (you know Italian mothers) and offered her wedding ring for him to kiss, saying ?Without this ring, you would not have yours."

Perhaps the priest in question is wearing it in thanksgiving for being given such wonderful parents that he became a priest. (maybe he was ordained before Vatican II)

Also if marriage is until death, why bury the ring with the deceased? What's the point?

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