{"id":9540,"date":"2010-08-16T19:02:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T23:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9540"},"modified":"2010-08-16T19:02:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T23:02:09","slug":"the-diocese-of-montreals-same-sex-marriage-liturgy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-montreals-same-sex-marriage-liturgy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diocese of Montreal\u2019s same-sex marriage liturgy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has <a href=\"http:\/\/montreal.anglican.ca\/pdfs\/Liturgy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">been published<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Blessing of the Marriage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The people remain standing. The couple kneel, and the celebrant says one of the following prayers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Most gracious God, we give you thanks for your tender love in sending Jesus Christ to come among us, to be born of a human mother, and to make the way of the cross to be the way of life. We thank you, also, for consecrating the union of two people in his name. By the power of your Holy Spirit, pour out the abundance of your blessing upon this couple. Defend them from every enemy. Lead them into all peace. Let their love for each other be a seal upon their hearts, a mantle about their shoulders, and a crown upon their foreheads. Bless them in their work and in their companionship; in their sleeping and in their waking; in their joys and in their sorrows; in their life and in their death. Finally, in your mercy, bring them to that table where your saints feast for ever in your heavenly home; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reading the liturgy reinforces the grotesqueness of calling a same sex union \u201cmarriage\u201d. \u00a0It does violence to Mark 10:6-7, makes a mockery of marriage and a laughing-stock of the putative church.<\/p>\n<p>A diocese that is unable to see such a cheap counterfeit for what it is, is no longer entitled to call itself\u00a0a Christian church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has been published: The Blessing of the Marriage The people remain standing. The couple kneel, and the celebrant says one of the following prayers. Most gracious God, we give you thanks for your tender love in sending Jesus Christ to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-montreals-same-sex-marriage-liturgy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[2109,1386],"class_list":["post-9540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-blessings-2","tag-diocese-of-montreal","tag-same-sex-blessings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}