The Sixth Precept of the Church Expounded.
Q. WHAT is the sixth?
A. Not to solemnize marriage on times prohibited that is, from the first Sunday of Advent, until Twelfth day be past, nor from Ash-Wednesday, until Low-Sunday be past.
A. Not to solemnize marriage on times prohibited that is, from the first Sunday of Advent, until Twelfth day be past, nor from Ash-Wednesday, until Low-Sunday be past.
Q. Why so?
A. Because those are times of special piety and penance, and should not therefore be spent in feasting, or carnal pleasures.
A. Because those are times of special piety and penance, and should not therefore be spent in feasting, or carnal pleasures.
Q. What sin is to break any of these church commandments?
A. A mortal sin of disobedience, according to that "He that will not hear the church, let him be unto thee as a heather and a publican." Matt. xvii. 17.
A. A mortal sin of disobedience, according to that "He that will not hear the church, let him be unto thee as a heather and a publican." Matt. xvii. 17.
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