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"Quebec Catholic parish invites cohabitating and same-sex couples to renew ‘conjugal commitment’"
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"A Quebec Catholic parish invited same-sex and cohabitating couples to 'renew their conjugal commitment' in a 'Feast of Love' last month.
Sainte-Anne’s Parish in the Diocese of Chicoutimi decided to move away from its annual 'Feast of Fidelity' honoring married couples, in favor of the new event, because Pope Francis has said not to judge, says Father Sylvain Gravel.
The April 23-24 Feast of Love, announced in the parish bulletin a week earlier, was 'simply to recognize all forms of love,' Gravel told LifeSiteNews in a telephone interview, adding that inspiration for the event was 'le nouveau pape' and his famous injunction, 'Who am I to judge?'”
'For Francis, the person is the best,' observed Gravel in his halting English. 'He is a person.'
Gravel is one of three priests, including “moderator” Fr. Mario Tremblay and Fr. Gérald Linteau, who along with the Valin pastoral council oversee the running of Sainte-Anne’s mega-parish, an amalgamation of three parishes with seven church buildings between them.
The Valin pastoral council decided this year, 'in openness to all couples of today,' to change the annual Feast of Fidelity — traditionally, a celebration for couples celebrating 25, 40, 50 or 60 years of marriage — to the Feast of Love, reads the bulletin announcement, translated on a blog by François Tremblay.
According to the announcement, the Feast of Love is intended to 'welcome any couple who desire to celebrate their love and to renew their conjugal commitment, whatever the type of commitment (be it Catholic marriage, civil marriage, common law spouse or of the same-sex, and whatever the number of years (1 year, 8 years, 25 years, 57 years, 62 years,…).'
'We consider that any couple commitment is important,' it reads. 'We invite you to come celebrate your love with us, to renew your commitment in couple life, and to allow us to entrust you to the Lord in this beautiful commitment of yours.'
Gravel told LifeSiteNews that Chicoutimi’s Bishop André Rivest knew about the Feast of Love and that 'he’s okay, for me, he approve.'"
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