Imagine for wedding ceremony

It often happens that the spouses require musicians to play John Lennon's Imagine during the ceremony of their marriage. Without considering the merits and the quality of the song, the beautiful of Lennon talent as a musician and singer, who do not argue, we will mention here only the relevance of the text of this song during Catholic religious ceremony in the church. For the reception or civil ceremony, in fact, there is nothing to say and usually everyone is free to choose and to play every kind of music. During the organization of the Catholic ceremony the bride and groom meet more or less rigid priests: some allow them to play any song, others will want to give directions a bit 'more stringent. Please read about our article sull'Ave Maria by Schubert. For now, let's talk about Imagine's lyrics. The song is often interpreted as a secular hymn / atheist and pacifist. Definitely it has some similarities with the message of Christ (in the sense that Christianity, as reported in the Gospels, is a message of peace and love) but it is also true that you can not totally identify the song with it and that, for some verses, they are indeed different. For example Christ speaks not to live only for today but to prepare for a life after death, of the possibility of a paradise, while Lennon wrote "Imagine that people live for the present, that there is no heaven, there is no religion " we do not want to influence the decision of the spouses, that alone will know very well decide if the song is in harmony with a ceremony and a sacramental religious rite.