Prince Charles has at last made an honest woman of his long-term companion, Camilla Parker-Bowles, and they are now safely united in the bonds of Holy Matrimony.
I do find it ironic that the C of E will refuse them a marriage ceremony in Church, yet will give them a Service of Blessing after their marriage in a Register Office. Seems rather pointless to argue the issue in this way.
If they are not worthy of being married in church, surely they are not worthy of a blessing by the Church`s priests, either.......
Anyway, they have eventually got their act together, and done the decent thing at long last.
We watched the Blessing ceremony, and were pleased to see that a Russian singer (from an organisation of whom Prince Chrales is a Patron) was invited to sing a setting of the Nicene Creed in Russian.
Getting some Orthodoxy into the service via the back door, I suspect :-)
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Hi Dave
I can`t help feeling it is all so "legalistic" in a RC canon law type of way.
To me, Orthodoxy `s use of economia and plain acceptance of the situation makes more sense and is actually far more humane.
And the penitential prayers for a second Orthodox wedding service really are penitential......
All that not withstanding, I do most sincerely wish Prince Charles and the Duchess long life and happiness.
Wouldn`t it be great if he actually gets round to becoming Orthodox one day :-)
He's a strange one on religion. On the one hand he seems to dig Holy Orthodoxy but on the other he has expressed the desire to chage the monarch's title to Defender of Faiths. But I'm an American. What do I know about royalty.
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