Word: nuptials
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps it is part of the current fashion of nostalgia, but when Assumption Church on the West Side of Chicago celebrates its one Mass in Latin every Sunday, worshipers jam in from as far away as Wisconsin. Many young couples come to Assumption to marry, specifically requesting a Nuptial Mass in Latin. The majority of Catholics may or may not prefer the vernacular as a more vital medium. But it is clear that some harbor a suspicion that modernity is overrated and favor Latin phrases as dark and cool and articulate as cathedral stones...
Meantime, a tidal flow of nuptial in pursuit, and then blithely departed with his bride in the fifth...
...result, 120,000 unwanted babies are born each year in Britain; in 1969, one bride in five was pregnant at the time of her marriage. That point is amply illustrated in the leaflet by a picture showing a very pregnant young woman in a white wedding gown, taking nuptial vows and saying to the preacher...
...bean-shaped King Mahendra in 1956, when the tiny Himalayan country imported 40 taxicabs, 130 Indian waiters, and everything from pastel bathtubs to Coca-Cola. Now the Nepalese are at it again, this time with a well-publicized royal wedding, billed as one of the most lavish Hindu nuptial ceremonies in history...