The various Nuptial Masses I have celebrated over the years can get out of hand if the couple isn’t truly practicing their faith nor their family and friends who attend the Nuptial Mass.
The Sign of Peace can become very problematic.
Here are a couple of things that went very wrong at some of my Nuptial Masses:
I say, “Let us offer each other the Sign of Peace” and then the couple proceeds to French kiss in a prolonged fashion in front of the assembly to their hoops and hollering!
Or:
The couple kisses passionately but not in the French way and then everyone comes up to them to exchange the Sign of Peace—without any coaching!
Or:
The couple goes to everyone in the congregation to greet and offer the Sign of Peace.
Or:
Everyone in the Church goes and greets everyone else!
All of this is very boisterous!
So, I have come to omit the Sign of Peace at Nuptial Masses and it makes all the difference in the world!
Of course, the couple with or without the Sign of Peace at the end as they depart will passionately kiss to the applause, hooping and hollering of all in the Assembly. What to do? What to do? Oh! What to do?
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I can almost predict some of the comments that will follow.
To my Eastern sensibilities, go from "and with your spirit" right into the fraction rite to preserve sobriety. The reception that usually follows seems to be the appropriate place for reconnection.
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