Outdoor Weddings
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2017
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Mike Schmitz explains why a Christian marriage has to be inside a church. With the marriage vows we aren’t just committing ourselves to our spouse. We are also saying in a very specific way that we will follow Christ. Marriage is inherently connected to Christianity, and it’s not just about us. It’s also about the church community to which we belong.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Nusfahler Mike Spitz and this is The Cension Presents. |
| 0:10.7 | So people will ask me on a regular basis, Father, if we can have all the sacraments outside |
| 0:15.7 | like baptism outside and you can have a whole mass outside and you can have confession |
| 0:20.6 | wherever and you can have anointing of the sick wherever, how come I can't get married |
| 0:24.5 | outside? |
| 0:25.5 | How can we can't do weddings outside? |
| 0:27.9 | What a question, Camper. |
| 0:28.9 | His first reason is pretty much historical and is cultural in what I mean by that is |
| 0:33.0 | this. |
| 0:34.0 | Have you ever seen the movie Braveheart? |
| 0:35.0 | Probably, yes. |
| 0:36.0 | Okay, and then we Braveheart at one point, William Wallace gets married to Marin in the |
| 0:39.3 | middle of the woods, which is awesome because why? |
| 0:41.5 | Because there's premoncta that's been established and if they get married in public then something |
| 0:45.3 | has to happen and so like let's get married in secret on the side. |
| 0:48.8 | That's great for William Wallace because he's a really upstanding guy, but it's not great |
| 0:52.7 | when you have not upstanding people in the world. |
| 0:55.3 | Here's William Wallace. |
| 0:56.3 | He's a bad guy. |
| 0:57.3 | He gets married in Scotland and then he goes off to battle in England. |
| 1:01.3 | He's been secretly married. |
| 1:02.3 | He meets someone in England and says, hey, I'm not married. |
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