The Right Day and Time to Be Married
By Pastor Benjamin Glaser - Posted at Thoughts From Parson Farms : Considering When the Moment is Right to Tie the Knot Howdy! Today’s portion from the Directory of Public Worship has us asking questions about timing. Both in the sense of when you should get married and how long you should (or should not) wait between engagement and the actual service. Like some of the other topics we have covered in the marriage part of the DPW it is an interesting thing for the writers of a document hoping to regulate our practices as Christians to be concerned about. We can understand things like who we should be marrying, and what the service itself is to look like, but why is there a whole paragraph given over to the date and elapse of time, as well as why it probably should not be Sunday? It is a good question to ask and we’ll spend most of our space today trying to answering it. We can rest in the fact that they would not have put it in here unless it mattered. The writers of the DPW are not su...
