基督教婚礼誓词:传统用语及其含义



  • 在1928年《公祷书》的传统誓词中,双方各取对方“从今日起,无论好坏、贫富、疾病或健康,相爱相惜,直到死亡将我们分开。”
  • 这些话语比《公祷书》更为古老:中世纪的萨鲁姆礼仪中,英语誓词已包含“以此向你许下我的忠诚”。
  • “Plight one’s troth”意为许下忠诚,“till death us do part”意为直到死亡将我们分开。
  • 天主教徒将誓词称为“同意”:包含三个问题,随后是《婚姻庆典礼仪》中某种形式的声明,由堂区提供。
  • 东正教婚礼没有口头誓词。神父会询问新人的自由意愿,然后祝福戒指并为他们加冕。
  • 较古老的卫理公会、长老会、浸信会和路德宗仪式用各自的语言保持了同样的承诺,有些仪式中甚至没有交换戒指的环节。
  • 天主教、东正教和圣公会婚礼使用固定的誓词;在其他教会中,牧师决定新人是否可以自行撰写誓词。

In the traditional Christian wedding vow, each takes the other “to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.” Churches word the promise in different ways, and an Orthodox wedding has no spoken vows at all. The words are old, and most of them were already spoken in English in the Middle Ages. At their heart is…

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