How to properly take the steps of marrying into a catholic family when you are baptist?

Question

i am currently raised on baptist dont have a prob converting to catholic but without sounding like a idiot arent there proper ways of doing so & isnt it a different type of wedding ceremony.. etc

Answer 1

You should set an appt. with the parish priest to ask him what the steps are for conversion. Every church has a different program.

PS The answers above are very ignorant, and very evident they are not familiar with Catholic practices at all. You can still get married in a Catholic church as long as you go through some pre-marriage counselling and vow to raise your children as Catholic--(although your ceremony might be tweaked a bit from their regular wedding ceremony). There are churches which can accommodate you--and ones that can not (stricter ones), usually the ones that can has a list for all the requirements you need.

Answer 2

The two of you should meet with the priest from where you are getting married. He will be able to give you all the information you need. You don't have to convert to Catholicism, but if you marry a Catholic, you must agree to have the children raised Catholic, etc.. The priest will advise you of everything. There is usually pre-marital counselling required as well. I can't tell you if the ceremony is different to Baptist, since I haven't been to a Baptist ceremony. Wish you luck!

Answer 3

You do not need to convert to be married in the Catholic Church. Although you will be asked to raise your children as Catholics.

A Catholic wedding ceremony is about the same as any other Christian's. However if both the bride and groom are Catholics then the ceremony is performed within a full Mass (with Holy Communion).

If you are interested in joining or just learning more about the Catholic Church, contact your local parish and ask about information about their RCIA Inquiry group.

You can go and ask any questions you want.

This is the first step in RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) but you can stop at any time.

There is no obligation to become a Catholic.

With love and prayers in Christ.

Answer 4

I am a Catholic and my husband is a Baptist. We got married in a catholic church by a catholic priest. My husband did not have to convert to catholic. The church did ask if he was baptized and my husband had to produce the papers from the baptist church that performed his baptism. I also had to produce papers of the same from my childhood catholic church. You and your future spouse will have to take a special class before getting married called "pre-cana", even a catholic marrying a Catholic has to take this class. We had a meeting with the priest to before getting married to discuss our marriage. We had to promise the priest we would raise our children as catholic. This seemed like it was the most important thing! Also, for our ceremony in the church we choose not take "communion", since only catholics (according to the catholic church) can receive it. I think it would have been weird to have only me and my family going for communion and excluding my husband and his family. Hope this helps and congrats on your engagement!

Answer 5

You can have a very wonderful relationship without changing religions. To get the permission of a Catholic priest to marry you to your Catholic fiance - you do not need to convert!
1. You will need to meet with the priest.
2. You will need to agree that any and all children born in this union will be raised in the Catholic faith (this is baptized, first communion and first confession). You can argue that since Confirmation is the choice of the child to become an adult in the faith, they and only they have the right to say which church they are confirmed in. (The priest I met with agreed with my statement and has agreed that my children should be raised in both faiths but that I still had to have them schooled in the Catholic faith and have the first three items done in the catholic church).
3. You will need to attend Pre-Cana classes with your fiance and these can be a terrible ordeal. Go and bite your tongue (my husband and I got out of them because we were already married - just not approved by the Catholic Church and we had to go through the remarriage for the Catholic Church to please his father). Take something to work with in your hands so that you don't really have to pay attention. Numbers of people told me these classes are the worst they don't teach you anything and just take your money.
4. You will have to meet with the priest several times before your wedding and you cannot set a date without meeting with him first.
Be nice, be respectful and things should be fine. The priest in charge of our wedding decided we were in for the long haul when I was beside myself while my husband was in the hospital with what turned out to be asthma attacks and they were telling me he was having heart attacks and was in bad shape.

Answer 6

I have been married 19 years now. I'm Catholic, she is not. We had to go to some classes together before the Catholic wedding, but the classes were mandatory for all; not just non-Catholics. My wife has never converted. In fact she has opened my eyes to various other religions.
We do not have children together, if you plan on children, it will be easier to be of one religion.
Good luck.

Answer 7

i married a catholic and my husband Kevin and I talked about different things like church before we married we maid a deal with eachother that I would go to mass with Kevin on saturday if he would go to church with me on sunday morning it has worked so far even after 9 years i'am a nazarene

Answer 8

My mother took some classes at the church before they would marry her.

Answer 9

Sounds like a formula for disaster to me. Catholics are very different from Baptists and don't budge an inch. Just a word of warning.

Answer 10

Hide all explosives, remove traces of all semtex from your clothing, take a deep breath and lie like a bastard.