I was told by parishoner at my church that monasteries cannot perform Matrimony services. Does anyone know of this to be true/false? And if monastics cannot, then why?
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Noah
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From what I have been told it is to make it so that they do not wish this for themselves among other reasons. Generally the white clergy (married, non-monastic clergy) and bishops do Marriages exclusively. Bishops are the only exception to the rule that monks do not do Marriages.
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One of the Canons of Nicea II actually is the reason for it (someone have a link to them online?). It stated that sacraments had to take place in public churches rather tahn private churches or monasteries.
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Yes that is true. It is because the Church does not want the monks at the monastary to be regretful that they did not get married. Actually a monk once told me that monks aren't even suppose to hold small children/babies for the same reason. Monks are sometimes allowed to go and attend a wedding if they are close to the people who are being wed.
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Here's the canons from Nicea II (7th Ecumenical), though I'm not sure which canon it is? I skimmed them and did a few word searches but didn't come up with anything.
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Let me check then and see if I am mistaken. I have a list of all the canons on my computer somewhere and I will try to use my search feature.
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