(Borrowed from Scott Hahn’s Facebook page)
TAKING UP OF THE CROSS IN MARRIAGE
According to Croatian tradition, when a couple gets married, the priest doesn’t tell them that they have found the perfect person. On the contrary! Instead, he says to them: “You have found your cross. It is a cross to love, to carry it with you, a cross that is not to throw away but to treasure.”
In Herzegovina, the Cross represents the greatest love and the crucifix is the treasure of the house.
When the bride and groom enter the church on their wedding day, they carry a crucifix with them. The priest blesses the crucifix. When the time comes to exchange their vows, the bride puts her right hand on the crucifix and the groom puts his hand on hers, so that both hands are joined together on the crucifix.
The priest covers their hands with his stole as they exchange their vows, according to the rite of the Church, to be faithful to each other, in joy and in sorrow, in sickness and in health, till death do them part.
Then, instead of kissing each other, the bride and groom kiss the crucifix. Those who witness the ceremony understand from it that if one of them leaves the other, he or she leaves Christ on the Cross.
After the ceremony, the newlyweds bring the crucifix to their home and put it in a place of honor. It will forever be the point of reference and the place of family prayer. In times of difficulty, the family do not go to the lawyer or the psychiatrist, but kneel down together before the crucifix in search of help from Jesus Christ. They kneel down and maybe even cry and open their hearts asking the Lord and each other for forgiveness. They go to sleep with peace in their hearts because they have received forgiveness from the only one who has the power to save.
Husband and wife will teach their children to kiss the crucifix every day and not to go to sleep like pagans, without first giving thanks to Jesus. They know that Jesus is holding them in His arms and there is nothing to fear.
H/t Toby Kenobe
That is all very nice, but why does the Protestant Married Preacher within Catholicism, priest wannabe Scott Hahn, feel like it is his responsibility, and not that of a priest or religious, to bring us this information?
Scott Hahn is a heretic. He has publicly stated that laymen have an equal dignity to priests, probably because he is upset that he cannot be both married AND a Catholic priest. He wants as a professional theologian to have it both ways.
The problem with these former Protestants is that they bring their emotionalism and heresies, very subtly, into the Church. That is why they do not need to be acting like professional married priests and need to get real jobs:
“They kneel down and maybe even cry and open their hearts asking the Lord and each other for forgiveness.”
Is that right? This seems the typical over the top emotionalism of many former Protestants, which is why they do not need to be placing themselves into theology teaching positions.
“because they have received forgiveness from the only one who has the power to save.”
Subtle heresy from the former Protestant Scott Hahn, which is why he is so dangerous to Catholic souls.
As any Catholic knows, the Moher of God has the power to save as Coredemptrix, Mediatrix of all Graces, and Queen of Heaven and Earth. So why is the former Protestant saying that ONLY Jesus has the power to save? That is one thing that really started to bother me about Scott Hahn. He constantly in his books, very subtly, denigrates the power of the Virgin Mary.
I knew that wouldn’t take long.