Emphasis mine.
I can see one major problem in your assumptions.
When my wife and I got married, we chose to do without the full mass, since she isn’t Catholic. We just had the ceremony where the priest said a few words, we exchanged vows and they played some music. I remember it taking about a half-hour.
Well… any wine from grapes. Rice wine or plum wine, for example, would not be permissible. The Code of Canon Law, Can. 924 ß3, provides: “The wine must be natural, made from grapes of the vine, and not corrupt.” In Redemptionis Sacramentum, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacrament expands on this guidance:
Aside from wine, the only allowable liquid is mustum, which is barely fermented grape juice.
It should be noted that the fineness of the qualifications on the wine extend to the bread that the Host is made of, as well. It MUST be wheat bread, as recent to-dos with gluten intolerant Catholics have shown. Things like rice bread (which is gluten-free) and even gluten-free wheat bread can’t be substituted (unless a new ruling was made since the last I’ve heard of the matter).
If you’re trying to say there’s no such thing as a good sangria, you, sir, are sorely mistaken.
I was an altar server from, eh, probably sixth through eight grade, and I can tell you that one of the priests at my (very conservative) parish used grape juice (IIRC, something normal, like Welch’s), because he was an alcoholic.
I’ll be damned (so to speak). I thought that every bottle of wine at every Catholic church in the whole Catholic world used wine from the same winery - some monastery in Europe called “Christian Brothers” or something.
Ignorance fought.
Assuming Welch’s is fresh grape juice, that’s perfectly permissible.
99% of the time it is horribly sweet and with a rather low alcohol level.
I guess they assume that there aren’t any non-Catholics in Pittsburgh - I’ve never seen that in any of the weddings I’ve been to up there, and for that matter I’m often the only one not taking Communion. Way to make a girl feel welcome!
Go back to your abortionists and your rock ‘n’ roll, heathen!
There are a lot of Catholics here- you really notice it during Lent. But we non-Catholic Pittsburghers do exist.
You are supposed to stand up when everybody else knee.
If you stand while the Catholics are kneeling, you’ll stick out like a sore thumb. If you sit, no one besides your pewmates will even know, and unless they’re complete jerks they’ll just chalk it up to you being non-Catholic. I’ve been to many Catholic weddings, and I’ve never seen anyone stand while the Catholics kneel.
Yeah, right. Now pull the other leg and tell me they let Jews in!
And at a Hindu wedding, you’re under absolutely no obligation to sit quietly and watch. The religious ceremony itself is only for the people actually participating in it. Everyone else is free to chit-chat, walk around, have a snack, whatever. That’s what makes western-style weddings excruciating. It’s like being forced to sit silently through a badly scripted and boring performance.
Isn’t the theology a little different, though, in how they define the “Real Presence?” The RCC is really specific about their definitions of various points of theology, and I think that the other denominations would agree that their definition isn’t the same? (My question marks here are meant to indicate that I’m not sure about this stuff…theology is not one of my strong suits.)
Another example would be the RCC’s not recognizing LDS Baptism, because although the LDS does baptize “In the name of the Father, the Son, and they Holy Spirit,” their theology behind the Trinity doesn’t gibe with that of the RCC.
Apologies, the Spanish vino refers only to grapes and I always forget wine doesn’t.
Or having a bad back, like my mother or one of my brother’s neighbors, who’s in her 20s and whose scoliosis has been called “a blueprint for a mountain road.”
For most other Christian sects, you’re correct, and therefore most other Christian sects are not invited to share in Catholic Communion. The Orthodox, though, agree on that particular point of theology, and so are permitted (from the Roman Catholic point of view) to share in the Eucharist. Most Orthodox bishops, however, do not allow their members to participate in Roman Catholic Communion, for reasons of their own. There’s a greater level of local autonomy in the Orthodox churches, though, so some do allow it.