{"id":1410,"date":"2018-11-04T22:28:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T22:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/testsite\/?page_id=1410"},"modified":"2023-12-19T09:55:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T22:55:42","slug":"marriage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
There are many good reasons to involve God in the marriage of a man and a woman:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because we love our spouse, and because this step you will make together is an important one, a lifetime\u2019s work, and so worth taking time to prepare well for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before booking a church or reception location, at least six months before<\/strong>\u00a0the possible date, contact the parish office, which will provide the forms and list of documents needed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the event that one of the future spouses is baptised but not Catholic, the priest can request permission from the archbishop for the marriage to take place. If one of the future spouses is not baptised, the priest can request a dispensation from the archbishop in order for the marriage to take place. In either case, the Catholic party needs to declare that they will take the necessary steps to avoid falling away from the faith and promise to do what they can to raise the children in the faith, and the non-Catholic needs to be aware of this responsibility of their future Catholic spouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The most important thing to do is to talk about it with someone: feel free to make a discreet appointment with the priest via the parish office, and we can sit down and discuss what might be the best next steps or direction to take. You are not obliged to live your struggles alone, as Christians we walk with each other and help each other out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marriage Why involve God in marriage? There are many good reasons to involve God in the marriage of a man and a woman: Why do we need take time to prepare for marriage? Because we love our spouse, and because this step you will make together is an important one, a lifetime\u2019s work, and so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7053,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1410\/revisions\/7053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
What if my future spouse is not Catholic or not baptised?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
We are having difficulties in our marriage, what can we do?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n