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Offline Todd The Trad

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Regularizing Marriage
« on: October 28, 2021, 02:34:45 PM »
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    • I have a question on behalf of my parents. They were both baptized in their youth. My father also received First Communion and Confirmation (prior to the changes) but my mother has not. The only sacrament she's received is baptism in an episcopalian church. 30 some years ago they had a secular marriage in Las Vegas. :facepalm:  A few years ago they decided to start practicing the faith, going to Mass every Sunday (novus ordo). My father refrained from taking Communion because he was married outside the Church. Eventually they worked with the priest and the local bishop and had their marriage "regularized" in the (novus ordo) church (no ceremony just paperwork). For close to a year now they've been exclusively attending an ICKSP Oratory. They are currently considering the possibility of switching to a traditional independent chapel, possibly one where the priest is a sede. Would a sede priest reject the "regularization" of their marriage through the novus ordo bishop? If so, would they need to go through this process again with a sede bishop? Obviously they will speak with the priest about this but I'd like to ask everyone's advice here. Any info would help. Thanks.
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    Offline Mithrandylan

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    Re: Regularizing Marriage
    « Reply #1 on: October 28, 2021, 03:15:32 PM »
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    • Rest easy, they are truly married however you cut it. Even sede priests would recognize this union as valid. 
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    Re: Regularizing Marriage
    « Reply #2 on: October 28, 2021, 03:15:41 PM »
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    Would a sede priest reject the "regularization" of their marriage through the novus ordo bishop? 
    Probably, but it is not within his right to. Sedes may make up their own rules (if they are cultish like some are). There is no sedechurch. If they were married in the Novus Ordo their marriage is regular. The Sacrament Marriage is bestowed on each other, while the priest is the witness.
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    Re: Regularizing Marriage
    « Reply #3 on: October 28, 2021, 08:45:07 PM »
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    • Just out of curiosity, if a couple is irregularly married (lack of canonical form), but is otherwise free to marry, how do they obtain regularization if they attend an SSPX, Resistance, other independent, or sedevacantist chapel?

    I suppose they could always just approach the diocese where they live, and keep quiet about what they do WRT the Mass and sacraments, submitting the necessary paperwork, and making it a done deal.  This would be more difficult for sedevacantists --- do they recognize any authority of the institutional Church at all, to do this sort of thing?  It seems to me that, in principle, saying there is no pope is not quite the same thing as saying there is no Church.  During papal interregnums --- and SV seems just to be such an interregnum writ very large --- all of the Church's acts do not come to a screeching halt.  Ecclesiaprivationists would, of course, be in quite a fix.

    So what do people do?
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