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CHAT: Sacraments

From:Ed Heil <edh@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 11, 2000, 6:19
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 07:11:58PM -0400, bjm10@CORNELL.EDU wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Irina Rempt wrote: > > > > confirmation and orders. > > > > In the Orthodox Church the spouses give the sacrament of marriage to > > one another. The priest doesn't bestow it, he only witnesses it. > > > Irina, I think you need to double-check this with a priest. I can assure > you that a priest DOES bestow the sacrament of Marriage within Orthodoxy, > or so Bishop NICHOLAS of Detroit made quite plain in his last visit to > Ithaca.
I've heard it Irina's way too. In fact, I remember hearing that sometime in the early Middle Ages there was a big push for making rules that priests had to be present at weddings, because they were the only sacrament that could be performed without a priest, and that grated on clerical nerves, so they insisted on at least being *present* even if they didn't actually *enact* the sacrament, they just blessed and recognized it. But this is one of those "I heard it once" things. No source. Ed