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Second Diocesan Wedding Anniversary Mass Set for Two Dates
The Second Annual Diocesan Wedding Anniversary Mass will be celebrated this spring at two parishes in the Diocese of Raleigh with The Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge presiding. The Masses will mark milestone weddings of couples married 25 years, 50 years and beyond in 2008.
Bishop Burbidge re-established the celebration in the Diocese last year as a way of “lifting up the sacred vocation of Marriage and to focus on the importance of this vocation for the life of our Church and our society.” More than 300 couples attended the 2007 ceremony, with 136 couples married for 50 years or more.
To make this special anniversary recognition available to more the faithful in the Diocese, this year two Masses have been scheduled. The first will be celebrated at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Raleigh on Sunday April 27. The second will be at Saint Paul Church in New Bern on May 4. Both Masses will begin at 2:00 PM. A reception with refreshments will follow each Mass with family members welcomed to attend.
Parishes have been asked to promote the Anniversary Masses and to submit to the Diocese a list of couples who plan to attend one of the celebrations. The parish registration form, flyers/bulletin inserts, along with a gallery and slide show of couples attending the 2007 Anniversary Mass is now available on line.