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...with a rainy ceremony on Oland island, 145 miles south of Stockholm. As King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden led his eldest granddaughter, Princess Margaretha, 29, down the aisle of the 13th century church of Gardslosa, the pink-faced groom, British Trucking Executive John Ambler, 40, waited beside an altar trimmed with wild flowers and flanked with birch trees. Television lights gleamed on the bride's golden crown and her simple wedding dress and veil of Brussels lace. Standing before Lutheran Archbishop Gunnar Hultgren, Margaretha answered the traditional question with a soft "Ja." Ambler said, "I will...
...Greek Or thodox ceremony in Athens, King Constantine of the Hellenes, 24, will take as his Queen Anne-Marie Dagmar Ingrid. Prettiest, youngest and liveliest of three royal sisters, leggy (5 ft. 8 in.), slim (120 Ibs., 22-in. waist) Anne-Marie will also be the first at the altar-as well as the first Danish princess to marry a reigning monarch since 1680, when Sweden's King Karl XI took Ulrika Leonora as his Queen...
...Unconfirmed children, at the now-popular family service, can approach the altar with their parents, cross their arms and receive the priest's blessing instead of the consecrated bread and wine...
Theologically speaking, the Protestant Episcopal Church has always been a "closed Communion" faith, in contrast to the Disciples of Christ, to which Johnson belongs, and many other Protestant groups that welcome all baptized Christians to the altar. The Episcopal reasoning is that people should not receive the sacrament together if they do not agree on what it signifies. But observance of the confirmation rubric varies widely from church to church, and two Lambeth Conferences of Anglican Bishops (1920 and 1930) have stated that it does not "necessarily apply." Only about two-thirds of the nation...
...case, Johnson is not likely to get turned away from many altar rails in Washington, traditionally an Episcopal diocese that favors open Communion. Bishop William Creighton says that "the President, of course, is welcome to receive Holy Communion in our churches...