MEXICAN LAW
MARRIAGES WITHOUT PRIEST. The Mexican law forbidding marriages by priests w’ho have not registered at Mexico City has led the Archbishop of Michoacan to sanction weddings at home. In a pastoral letter the Archbishop issues these instructions for priestless marriages:— Prepare in your house an altar. Place upon it some image of your devotion. Upon your bended knees make the sign of the Cross and recite the Lord’s Prayer, Ave Maria, and the Credo. Pray to the Lord Jesus Christ and give thanks to God. Then, standing before the altar, the bridegroom will say, “I , before God and witnesses declare I wish to receive for my wife Senorita as the Holy Roman Catholic Church prescribes. ’ ’
The bride makes a similar declaration. Both then kneel and swear to remain devoted and faithful to each other. The bridegroom must furnish the parish church with a record of the marriage.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19846, 21 May 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)
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149MEXICAN LAW Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19846, 21 May 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)
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