Roman Catholic ceromony

ello all....desperatly looking for a Roman Catholic that is able (and willing) to perform a Roman Catholic wedding ceromony in world.

Please contact me (Pud Gasser) if you can help.

Perhaps it would make more sense to contact a local Roman Catholic with marrying power and have them join SL to conduct the ceremony inworld.

mm it would if we had more time...thanks anyway SuezanneC.

There is a Roman Catholic Church group in-world. Quite popular too (95 members). Why not join, and ask if anyone can assist?

Thanks Dillon...we tried that without much success

From I know of the Church they will not conduct a ceremony outside the Church. The Mass has to be conducted at a Roman Catholic Church to be official. I had a friend try to get married at Disney World and if they wanted a Catholic ceremony they had to have it in a church and then the reception at Disney World.

Get two RL churches involved, one for where each person getting married is. Both RL priests join SL. Computers are set up in the churches. RL video is streamed into SL. SL projected into RL churches. Each person getting married is in a church building in RL with a RL priest. It's even realler and holier than normal because it involves double the priests and double the church buildings.

For a while, there was a church in Caledon, who, while perhaps different than the Roman Catholic Church, seemed to be doing okay there. I have no idea precisely what it would take to make for a good church or temple of any stripe, but I'm sure there are many places that would be respectful and open to having such a thing.

(Yes, I know I have a 'no religion / no politics' clause in my covenants presently but pfft, they were cool and great community members, my covenant is going to ease up soon for such cases)

Hmm, perhaps this is a job for the libsl's newly created RomanCatholicPriestConductingAWeddingCeremonyBot.

mm never thought of that....perhaps the stfufruitloopifucanthelpbot would be more apt in this case though?

I'm a tad confused. I assumed the OP wanted to reenact a Roman Catholic wedding in-world, much like those who choose a SL church 'wedding' when partnering, but with all the relevant Catholic traditions instead (and possibly Mass?). Some of the replies now make me think this is about getting married in RL besides SL. Sorry if I got that bit wrong. Sounds somewhat more complicated.

You're spot on fella.....mebbe i wasn't clear enough for the rest...?

I still can't help you though. Well...I did notice an old story at NWN about an authentic Catholic Mass taking place in Second Life. I'm hesitant about naming names here (TOS), but the priest's name is mentioned in the second paragraph if you wanna send him an IM.

Story here: http://secondlife.blogs.com/nwn/2004/04/where_two_or_mo.html

Good luck. I hope your plan works out.

Thanks anyway Dillon.....all we need is a genuine and reliable Roman Catholic that's familiar with the wedding ceremony and able to perform it in SL without shouting obsceneties or getting their primcock out half way through

There is not a spot of language anywhere in the ToS, CS, or forum guidelines which prohibits "naming names". You can name names. What you cannot do is disclose real life personal information about other residents which isn't already displayed in their 1st Life profile. You also cannot flame other residents in the forums. You would be perfectly fine in naming this guy in your post, in this instance. No violation.

Actually there is.
Past experience tells me it's wise to tread carefully though, so I'd rather not discuss anybody not present by name at all.

Every bump help gets a thread attention.

There's no demand for a stfufruitloopifucanthelpbot, there are plenty of hostile people just champing at the bit to do that in the forums all the time.

You might consider editing your initial post to make it clear that you are just looking for someone that knows the rituals to conduct a simulated ceremony.

When are you wanting to hold the ceremony?

I can't help with rounding up a priest, but you DEFINATELY have got to get married at the Mocha Cathederal.

Just. Simply. Awesome.

P.S. - the person who built it runs a highly successful business in-world, so she might not be IM'able. You may need to drop a notecard on her instead because of the in-game IM limit.

Being identified as a RL RC priest might count.

Count as what?

I'm very confused here... Maybe it would help you get the right kind of help.. if you referenced the point of my confusion.

Are you attempting to marry in first life, but hold your ceremony in second life?

The reason I ask is.. unless you are truly prepared to marry this person.. all you are doing is "enacting a small play, in which your avatars are pronounced as partnered". Now, I'm sure that's very loving, and serious, and life affirming.. but we need to take a look at something.

CHurches.. real churches.. are in the business of marrying real people.. really. Now, while it may be your hope to have a "Catholic church wedding themed partnering ceremony within SL" (dresses, carriages, a church, an avatar in a preist's uniform, a book, and altar, wafers, all that jazz)... if you go out and get a real preist to perform your ceremony.. the only way he's going to be likely to do it.. is if you are wanting to REALLY be married at the end of the ceremony.

Marriages in SL are like anything else.. we play house.. in houses without bathrooms or cookware. (okay okay I'm sure SOMEONE will nitpick that house X has a bathroom.. fine whatever). We marry, and we "play marriage" and then we "play married".

I know you want something that is very realistic.. dreamlike even perhaps... But before you continue, and before we continue to try and help you... you need to decide "how married" you want to be when this is all over. I'm not about to presume that I know, one way or another, what you want.

I myself have stood watch over a "partnering" in SL.. I looked up good and noble words, I crafted them to fit the task at hand, and I put on something prim and stood at the podium, and walked them through their "I do's". Am I "Qualified" to marry people in the state of Washington? no.. but I didn't pronounce them married as people in the real world.. I roleplayed officiating over their roleplaying characters being bonded as partners inside a videogame. (pay your partnering fee to linden labs, and you may now activate the Multi-Hug attachment)

You may not want a Catholic Priest.. you may just want someone who is willing to dress up like one, and run the rite for your avatars. Conversely.. you might actually want the church's blessing on the two of you having carnal relations via Second Life.. in which case, a real priest is your answer.

But asking for a religious ceremony directly (not a "reasonable facsimily" has made this whole thread delve into a weird area.. and I think it would help a lot of people to help you.. if we understood what your definition of "marry us" is.

"Disclosing real life personal information about other residents."

Thanks to all for the replies and apologies for the confusion, what we require is a ceremony that is very similiar to the normal Roman Catholic one but with subtle changes to prevent it being blasphemous.

To clarify..we are not being married RL and the wedding will be just the same as the thousands of other weddings in SL apart from the difference already stated.

We do not want a RL priest to perform the ceremony as this would obviously be very wrong.
All we need is someone that is a RL Roman Catholic and knows the ceremony well enough to re-enact it (with the changes) in world.

Sorry again about the confusion.

I'm pretty sure it's blasphemous and a sin and all that. If it sounds like fun, it has to be sinful.

On a related subject: I'm looking for a roman catholic monk or priest who's willing to roleplay an inquisition-style torture scene in my dungeons.

For what it's worth, if you go to secondlife.com and use the "search second life" field, it does allow a search of groups that's better than the inworld search.

Such a search for "weddings" doesn't yield any groups but does yield some parcels some of which might be places that do weddding ceremonies.