catholic tours

My Fiance is getting deployed to iraq in april and we want to get legally married before he leaves. However, I also want a catholic ceremony when he comes home after his 15 month tour. Does anyone know what that Catholic marriage ceremony is like and how different is it from being married first in the church?? Thanks to all who answer!

I got married first and then in a Catholic church. It didn't affect the ceremony at all, because the church doesn't really care about if you are married in the eyes of the law, what they care about is being married the Catholic way.

There are various ceremonies to choose from ranging from the two hour hell fest with Latin, down to the cut down 15 minute job. The church we went to let us pick.

2007-10-25 15:17:56 by Liz S

www.sacredpoland.com A Catholic Tour, a Pilgrimage amp; Holiday. Follow the Foot Steps of Pope John Paul II in Poland. Krakow - Medieval Salt ...

My daughters and I are in the planning stages of making a pilgrimage tour to Catholic shrines in Italy (at least ... would like to include parts of Portugal and France if feasible). We're at least a couple of years from actually making the trip, but want to plan carefully -- and need to save travel funds bit by bit. I've seen packaged tours offered that seem to cover everything; on the other hand, I'm wondering if we could save money and have a more flexible itinerary by doing it on our own. Any recommendations?

The advantage of the tour group is that they will have a coach and you'll be ferried around. Travelling around Rome is easy (I actually walked a lot) but it will add time, as will having to organise your own transport between other towns & cities in Italy. You'll also have to deal with the Italian language for announcements at railway stations etc. although most things should be on indicator boards (just make sure you know the Italian name for their towns, not just our Anglicisation ie Florence is actually called Firenze).

Tour groups also tend to get discounts on large bookings with hotels, but then, you can find excellent places at reasonable prices too, especially if you book some time in advance....don't always stick to large, chain-type hotels.

On a tour, you may find that your time is limited in some places that you want to spend longer, or too long in others and travelling independantly, would give you the freedom to choose - and of course you could break for coffee as often as you want, eat in restaurants of your choosing etc.


If you have the confidence to do so, I would travel independantly - you'll have your daughters for company and I'm sure you'll get chatting to other people along the way. It would be worth getting a (detailed) itinerary from some of the tour companies that you've seen - feign interest in their tours - as they are a good guideline to use for your own planning.

One final point - when I was in Rome, albeit in 2001, Pope John Paul II gave weekly audiences each Wednesday; I assume that Pope Benedict does the same. As there will be a small group of you, you need to apply for tickets in advance - details are in Lonely Planet's guidebook (and probably others). If you do go - get there early as seating is first-come-first-served....you want to be near the aisleway in the centre (the popemobile comes down that way) or at the front, for great views.

Have a fantastic trip...and enjoy your preparations as that's half of the fun.

2007-04-28 10:07:50 by Clare †

Price: $9.99

<*>Try unitours: http://www.unitours.com/protestant/001.h tml
Take a bible with you and take advantage of the time to reconsider some of the post you have made

2006-01-28 09:34:08 by zedekah777

Is there an Abercrombie & Fitch store near Woodburn Mall, Portland or the 64 acre Catholic church (i duno the name)?

I'm going on a tour, (I'm originally from Canada) to the US. I want to buy some A&F stuff and I checked the Woodburn Mall does not have any A&F stores.

I found two in Portland
Morrison & Broadway
625 SW Broadway Ave.
Portland, OR 97205
503-223-1344

Clackamas
12000 S.E. 82nd Ave, Suite 1076
Portland, OR 97266
503-659-0736

not sure which is more convenient, but you can look on the store locator below

2008-07-25 22:07:57 by Mandy C

Ever since Vatican II (1962-1965) the Newchurch of the New Order has reeked with the odor of heresy. Because Vatican II led directly to the watering down of Christ as God and to an emphasis on Christ as "our brother," it set off a new burst of Arianism in Newchurch. Right after Vatican II, the heretics were coming out of the closet, denying every Catholic dogma from the divinity of Christ to the perpetual virginity of the Blessed Virgin Mary to the Crucifixion and Resurrection (remember The Passover Plot?)

The Arian heresy, which essentially denied the divinity of Christ, infected the Church like a virulent virus in the fourth century, carrying away with it most of the bishops and even, some authorities say, the pope. Millions of Catholics were led astray, including four out of five bishops and two out of three priests. The noted Patristic scholar, Fr. William Juergens, estimated that by the end of the fourth century, "the number of Catholic bishops in possession of sees, as opposed to Arian bishops in possession of sees, was no greater than something between 1% and 3% of the total." He concludes: "Had doctrine been determined by popularity, today we should all be denies of Christ and opponents of the Spirit." It was at this time that St. Jerome, the Great Doctor of the Church, issued his famous lament: "Ingemuit orbis terrarum, se Arianum esse miratus est [the whole world groaned and was dumbfounded that it was Arian]."

Doesn't this description sound a description of Newchurch today? Actually, we would be doing well today if even 1% to 3% were traditional bishops! But there was a silver lining to the cloud. This was the period when the crisis of the Church brought forth its greatest defenders: St. Basil the Great, St. Athanasius Defensor Fidei, St. Martin of Tours, St. Augustine, and several other great figures.

Presbyter Peter Dresser, of Bathurst, Australia, has now published a book in which he proclaims: "No human being can ever be God, and Jesus was a human being. It is as simple as that." That statement is outright heresy, as it denies the dogmatic teaching that Christ has two natures, of God and of man. The Newchurch presbyter goes on to deny three other Catholic dogmata, stating that Mary had as many as six children, that Joseph was the biological father of Christ, and that the resurrection of the body is not to be taken literally.

The Newchurch presbyter specifically denies the First Oecumenical Council of the Church, at Nicaea in 325, its most important council, in which a united East and West rejected the Arian heresy and expressed the dogmatic teaching of the Catholic Church on the nature of Christ, in what today we call the "Nicene Creed," the Creed that is recited on Sundays at Holy Mass.

There is no word from Benedict-Ratzinger on his heretical priest.

This story is three days old and also two thousand years old. The priest will be excommunicated shortly for his views because the are beyond the teachings of the Catholic Church.

The more modernistic the liberal clerical cohort in Australia tries to become, the older are the heresies that they promote. Lately, one Fr Peter Dresser is promoting his own brand of Arianism, a heresy that basically denied the divinity of Christ, and which was solemnly rejected by the Council of Nicaea in 325AD. "No human being can ever be God," writes Fr. Dresser in a booklet distributed to the faithful, "and Jesus was a human being. It is as simple as that."

"No Catholic priest may deny the divinity of Christ, and Dresser is a Catholic priest. It's as simple as that." If Fr. Dresser really denies the divinity of Christ (among several other things!), he will shortly be declared excommunicated from the clerical state. The Church will do it quickly and cleanly, and without rancor.
Godspeed.

2008-11-02 20:29:20 by Joe S