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Show CHURCH WEDDINGS AND CARDS. - While it is a popular custom to issue cards of invitation to attend a church wedding it is entirely contrary to the teaching understood to be implied by the church edifice. No private family has a right to issue invitation to the House of God to witness the performance of a rite within the said house as though for the time being the matter had been given over to them for their own particular us A wedding in a church is not a private, but rather a public rite, at which any parishioner who wishes may be present without an invitation from any one. God's house is at all times a public place of worship, the very spirit of which, is utterly opposed op-posed to cards of invitation. |