Ok the media has been making such a big deal about how weird Scientology wedding vows are.
I looked into it, there different,& a little weird, but over all not that bad.
Here the vows complete,sorry it's long:
The Traditional Scientology
Wedding Ceremony
(pages 70-79)
Attend! Uncover and be still, you present here in this a holy place. For we today shall marry here this groom and bride and wish them well.
Rejoice! You line of struggling life from eons gone to now for here again Your track is sped and winged into a future fate by this a union of a man and bride Whose child shall pace a further span of Destiny and Life.
Forbear! For here shall be no calumny or whispered word against you, man or woman thou for this the union you contract does wipe away all sorrow of the past. Speak out then now if any man or girl would speak and say here a reason why these two should not
Be wed.
And silence heard does speak out plain there's none.
So now my (bride's name), Stand steady here and say do you today intend for him beside you there to be to him a wife? (Answer)
And do you ken that (groom's name) here shall have you for his own? Do you? (Answer)
And do you understand as well that by the customs of our race you pledge to him and only him your kiss and your caress? Do you? (Answer)
Well then know that Life is stark, and often somewhat grim, and tiredness, and fret and pain, and sickness do beget, a state of mind where spring romance is far away and dead.
And yet for valor and for strength you must abide and create still his health, his purpose
and repose. Do you? (Answer)
And do you take his fortune at its prime and ebb and seek with him best fortune for us all? Do you? (Answer)
Good then, (bride's name), I'm sure you will and surer yet you'll fare full well and staunchly as a wife.
Now, (groom's name), listen well. The tides of fortune and of life are sometimes fair or grim and in this life the young man seeks for victory afar and often scants the fireside and turns away from home's sweet face and thinks his loved ones cannot fare at all beside his side. And thinking thus they go.
You know this. Then be cautioned so and take thy own even though they sleep
beneath foul straw and eat thin bread and walk on pavement less than kind
And keep thy wife and they who come beside thy side. Keep them, (groom's name),
by your side in rain or sleet or summer sun, and comfort them, and give them care, and share with them thy life.
For times are changed and woman's place is not a hearth or home but striding out to victory beside her husband's side.
This (groom's name), is a modern world and man has changed.
But, (groom's name), let's think on it well for if stands aught in you of doubt that you can take and keep and love her well this wife then stay your hand, and we shall say no more,
For fatal and of full tight bind are these the words I next will speak.
Shall I go on? (Answer)
And you, (bride's name), listen well. And you, (groom's name), answer swift. Prepared? (Answer)
(Groom's name), do you pledge to take this woman for your lawful wife? (Answer)
Do you, (groom's name), make promise here before us all to keep her well or ill?
Do you? (Answer)
And when she's older do you then keep her still? Do you? (Answer)
Now, (groom's name), girls need clothes and food and tender happiness and frills. A pan, a comb, perhaps a cat all caprice if you will. But still they need them. Do you then
Provide? Do you? (Answer)
Hear well, sweet (bride's name), for promise binds young men are free and may forget remind him then. That you may have necessities and follies, too.
Now, (groom's name)! Attend! Do you, best man, possess a ring? (Groom's name),
take it please and, (bride's name), your hand will he enclasp.
We have it now. Repeat!
"I, (bride's name)," (Answer) "Do hereby take" (Answer) "You, (groom's name)," (Answer) "For my husband." (Answer)
And, (groom's name), Do now repeat "I, (groom's name)," (Answer) "Do hereby take" (Answer) "You, (bride's name)," (Answer) "For my lawful wedded wife." (Answer)
Put on the ring! Rejoice all here for we have wed our (groom's name) and our (bride's name), and wish them well.
All here repeat! Are they by witness Man and wife? (Answer)
Rejoice and go your many ways now, (groom's name), kiss your bride and hug her well.
And all of you come toast and drink their health that it may last until that day when death
itself, the severer of all ties shall end the thing which we have done today.
Dismiss
The Double Ring
Wedding Ceremony
(pages 88-99)
Friends: We are gathered here in the presence of these witnesses for the purpose of legally joining in marriage this man and this woman, (names of bride and groom).
If there be any among you who know of any reason why this should not be done,
let them now speak, or forever remain silent. (Pause)
All being in accord, we shall proceed.
(Groom's name), is your reality of the love you have for (bride's name) such as you will be constantly creating through health and sickness; through adversity as well as good fortune?
Can you confront and grant forgiveness for shortcomings as readily as you give praise
for all her many admirable qualities? (Answer)
And have you communicated your love to (bride's name)? (Answer)
(Bride's name), have you acknowledged (groom's) love? (Answer)
(Bride's name), is your reality of the love you have for (groom's name) such as you will be constantly creating through health and sickness; through adversity as well as good fortune?
Can you confront and grant forgiveness for shortcomings as readily as you give praise
for all his many sterling qualities? (Answer)
And have you communicated your love to (groom's name)? (Answer)
(Groom's name), have you acknowledged (bride's) love? (Answer)
Then may I say to you both that through your love together with your agreement upon its reality, and by your communication of these two beautiful truths, you have completed the
ARC triangle, and thereby consummated the only true marriage, which is beyond the power of any individual or group of individuals to add to or detract from in the slightest manner.
However, the law and custom of our society requires that this union shall be made a matter of public acclaim and record. It is my honor to have been selected by you to perform the ceremony.
The acceptance of an honor carries with it an obligation of comparable magnitude, and I would be remiss in that responsibility if I failed to attempt a contribution, not to have you have already created, which no one can do, but to the permanency of its continued creation on your future time track.
Man has ever employed symbols to impress upon the mind, wise and important truths, that these symbols might prove an ever-present reminder of the necessity of ceaseless creation of our desires.
And I am certain that your one joint desire in present time is that the love you have created shall remain a reality throughout your future years.
Best man, have you a ring? (Answer)
May I have it please? (Receives the ring.) Thank you.
(Holding up a ring between the thumb and forefinger of each hand:)
These rings consist of circles, and the circle has been an emblem of permanency to man
since time immemorial. In fact, it represents time and space-- which are without ending.
I want you to look upon these two emblems and mock up the ARC triangle in the center of each.
Have you done it? (Answer) Thank you.
As long as these emblems remain with you, I want you to see that triangle in their center
as a reminder that the reality of their symbolism of permanency will hold true only so long as that triangle remains unbroken.
I should like to see you make a pact between you that you will never close your eyes in sleep on a broken triangle. Heal any breach with the reality of your love through communication. If you will do this, these emblems of your greatest desire in present time will remain a reality throughout your future time track.
Let us proceed.
(Groom's name) will you take this ring and with these words, place it upon (bride's name)'s finger.
"With this symbol of my love" (Answer) "I take thee, (bride's name)," (Answer) "As my true and lawful wedded wife" (Answer) "I pledge thee to keep
this love" (Answer) "Ever living, ever real." (Answer)
(Bride's name), will you take this ring and with these words, place it upon (groom's name)'s finger.
"With this symbol of my love" (Answer) "I take thee, (groom's name)," (Answer) As my true and lawful wedded husband" (Answer) "I pledge thee to keep this love" (Answer) "Ever living, ever real." (Answer)
And now, in the name of the Church of Scientology and by virtue of the powers vested in me by the state, I declare you (groom's name), and you, (bride's name), to be truly and legally, husband and wife.
I will ask that you seal this ceremony with your lips. (Wait for the kiss)
And I will ask these witnesses present to join me in blessing this ceremony with the postulate that the trust and love of the present shall become ever stronger with each passing year. (Pause)
Did you do it? (Answer) Thank you.
(Be the first to congratulate them both, and the first to address the bride as Mrs.)
. The Background Ministry, Ceremonies &
Sermons of the Scientology Religion ↓
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| Name: Kristy84 | Date: Nov 18th, 2006 7:59 PM |
| To each their own...thank God we live in a country where we can choose a religion. I still think Scientologists are WAY out there regardless of if their wedding vows are somewhat "normal" ↑ |
| Name: granny2be | Date: Nov 18th, 2006 9:12 PM |
| Too hard for me to keep up with, hurts my eyes. ↑ |
| Name: atomic snowflake | Date: Nov 18th, 2006 10:41 PM |
| It's sad that nobody managed to rescue Katie Holmes from that dreadful Tom Cruise :-( He's become such a freak!!!! I hope that the poor girl manages to get out some day! ↑ |
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