01-28-2005, 02:36 PM
I'm doing a discussion thread that covers the range of "Eastern Christian" traditions etc. around weddings.
And I wanted to cover the ones around the "Church of the East", Assyrians etc.
I didn't find much, I found one in yahoo that actually suggested that there wasn't a marriage liturgy. And this seems familiar (I rember discussing with a friend that Church didn't have marriage as one of its sacraments and had various early Jewish ideas and practices around just "giving brides away" with no ceremony like in early judaism and the other middle east).
But I was hoping PAul Younan could confirm this, or maybe point me to some materials on this subject.
And I wanted to cover the ones around the "Church of the East", Assyrians etc.
I didn't find much, I found one in yahoo that actually suggested that there wasn't a marriage liturgy. And this seems familiar (I rember discussing with a friend that Church didn't have marriage as one of its sacraments and had various early Jewish ideas and practices around just "giving brides away" with no ceremony like in early judaism and the other middle east).
But I was hoping PAul Younan could confirm this, or maybe point me to some materials on this subject.