Paul W Kelly
[Sample version of a wedding brochure, (simple prayer service version)]
THE MARRIAGE
OF
(GROOM'S FIRST NAME) (GROOM'S MIDDLE NAMES) (GROOMS SURNAME)
And
(BRIDES FIRST NAME) (BRIDES MIDDLE NAMES) (Bride's Surname)
(DATE OF THE WEDDING)
(Time of the wedding)
Please fill in the options where indicated, using the wedding readings and prayers booklet that you were given by the priest.
ENTRANCE MUSIC (**Insert name of music, or if you wish people to sing along to a hymn, print the hymn name and words here).
GREETING OF THE BRIDE at the foot of the Sanctuary steps
Priest: (optional) Who presents this Bride
(E.g., Father of the Bride: I do
Priest: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
All: Amen.
Priest: The Lord be with you
All: And with your spirit.
Words of Welcome (Priest)
COLLECT PRAYER (Priest)
Let us Pray,
**(insert opening prayer, OPTIONS A-E)***
LIGHTING OF FAMILY CANDLES. (optional)
THE FIRST READING
(Read by family member or friend)
(**insert reading here, OPTIONS NUMBER 5-10)
(at the end of the reading….)
Reader: The word of the Lord.
All: Thanks be to God.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
(**INSERT OPTIONS27-34h )
(The psalm can be done in several ways. The nicest way is to print the psalm in the order of service and invite the congregation to read it all out together. Another way is to print the ‘response’ that the congregation says at the end of each line and get a family member or friend to read out the verses. Alternatively, a well-known religious hymn could be sung here if you choose)
THE SECOND READING (OPTIONAL)
(Read by family member or friend). (** INSERT OPTIONS11-18)
(at the end of the reading….)
Reader: The word of the Lord.
All: Thanks be to God.
GOSPEL (By Priest)
Priest: The Lord be with you
All: And with your spirit.
A reading from the Holy Gospel According to…..
All Respond: Glory to You, O Lord.
(** INSERT OPTIONS 19-26**)
(at the end of the reading….)
Priest: The Gospel of the Lord.
All: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
HOMILY (By Priest)
LITURGY OF THE SACRAMENT
THE CELEBRATION OF MATRIMONY
Introduction
Dearly beloved,
you have come together into the house of the Church,
so that in the presence of the Church’s minister and the community
your intention to enter into Marriage
may be strengthened by the Lord with a sacred seal.
Christ abundantly blesses the love that binds you.
Through a special Sacrament,
he enriches and strengthens
those he has already consecrated by Holy Baptism,
that they may be faithful to each other for ever
and assume all the responsibilities of married life.
And so, in the presence of the Church,
I ask you to state your intentions.
Questions Before the Consent
(BRIDE FIRST NAME), AND (GROOM’S FIRST NAME),
have you come here to enter into Marriage
without coercion,
freely and wholeheartedly?
The bridegroom and bride each say:
I have.
Are you prepared, as you follow the path of Marriage,
to love and honour each other
for as long as you both shall live?
I am.
Are you prepared to accept children lovingly from God
and to bring them up
according to the law of Christ and his Church?
I am.
Consent
Since it is your intention to enter the covenant of Holy Matrimony,
join your right hands and declare your consent
before God and his Church.
The bridegroom says:
I, (GROOM’S FIRST NAME), take you, (BRIDE FIRST NAME), to be my wife.
I promise to be faithful to you,
in good times and in bad,
in sickness and in health,
to love you and to honour you
all the days of my life.
The bride says:
I, (BRIDE FIRST NAME), take you, (GROOM’S FIRST NAME), to be my husband.
I promise to be faithful to you,
in good times and in bad,
in sickness and in health,
to love you and to honour you
all the days of my life.
Reception of Consent
May the Lord in his kindness strengthen the consent
you have declared before the Church,
and graciously bring to fulfillment his blessing within you.
What God joins together, let no one put asunder.
Let us bless the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Blessing of Rings
May the Lord bless + these rings,
which you will give to each other
as a sign of love and fidelity.
Amen.
Giving of Rings
The bridegroom places his wife's ring on her ring finger, saying, as the circumstances so suggest:
(BRIDE FIRST NAME), receive this ring
as a sign of my love and fidelity.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit.
Likewise, the bride places her husband's ring on his ring finger, saying, as the circumstances so suggest:
(GROOM’S FIRST NAME), receive this ring
as a sign of my love and fidelity.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit.
*LIGHTING OF WEDDING CANDLE (OPTIONAL) *
Universal Prayer
Dear brothers and sisters,
as we call to mind the special gift of grace and charity
by which God has been pleased to crown and consecrate
the love of our sister (BRIDE FIRST NAME) and our brother (GROOM’S FIRST NAME),
let us commend them to the Lord.
That these faithful Christians, (BRIDE FIRST NAME) and (GROOM’S FIRST NAME),
newly joined in Holy Matrimony,
may always enjoy health and well-being,
let us pray to the Lord.
R. Lord hear our prayer.
That he will bless their covenant
as he chose to sanctify marriage at Cana in Galilee,
let us pray to the Lord. R.
That they be granted perfect and fruitful love,
peace and strength,
and that they bear faithful witness to the name of Christian,
let us pray to the Lord. R.
That the Christian people
may grow in virtue day by day
and that all who are burdened by any need
may receive the help of grace from above,
let us pray to the Lord. R.
That the grace of the Sacrament
will be renewed by the Holy Spirit
in all married persons here present,
let us pray to the Lord. R.
PRIEST: Graciously pour out upon this husband and wife, O Lord,
the Spirit of your love,
to make them one heart and one soul,
so that nothing whatever may divide those you have joined
and no harm come to those you have filled with your blessing.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Invitation to Nuptial Blessing
Dear brothers and sisters,
let us humbly pray to the Lord
that on these his servants, now married in Christ,
he may mercifully pour out
the blessing of his grace
and make of one heart in love
(by the Sacrament of Christ’s Body and Blood)
those he has joined by a holy covenant
Nuptial Blessing B
Holy Father,
who formed man in your own image,
male and female you created them,
so that as husband and wife, united in body and heart,
they might fulfill their calling in the world;
O God, who, to reveal the great design you formed in your love,
willed that the love of spouses for each other
should foreshadow the covenant you graciously made with your people,
so that, by fulfillment of the sacramental sign,
the mystical marriage of Christ with his Church
might become manifest
in the union of husband and wife among your faithful;
Graciously stretch out your right hand
over these your servants ((BRIDE FIRST NAME) and (GROOM’S FIRST NAME)), we pray,
and pour into their hearts the power of the Holy Spirit.
Grant, O Lord,
that, as they enter upon this sacramental union,
they may share with one another the gifts of your love
and, by being for each other a sign of your presence,
become one heart and one mind.
May they also sustain, O Lord, by their deeds
the home they form
to become members of your heavenly household
walking in the ways of the Gospel.
Graciously crown with your blessings your daughter (BRIDE FIRST NAME),
so that, by being a good wife and mother,
she may bring warmth to her home with a love that is pure
and adorn it with welcoming graciousness.
Bestow a heavenly blessing also, O Lord,
on (GROOM’S FIRST NAME), your servant,
that he may be a worthy, good and faithful husband and a provident father.
Grant, Holy Father,
that, desiring to approach your table
as a couple joined in Marriage in your presence,
they may one day have the joy
of taking part in your great banquet in heaven.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
THE LORD’S PRAYER
THE CONCLUSION OF THE CELEBRATION
Blessing
May God the eternal Father
keep you of one heart in love for one another,
that the peace of Christ may dwell in you
and abide always in your home.
Amen.
May you be blessed in your children,
have solace in your friends
and enjoy true peace with everyone.
Amen.
May you be witnesses in the world to God’s charity,
so that the afflicted and needy who have known your kindness
may one day receive you thankfully
into the eternal dwelling of God.
Amen.
And may almighty God bless all of you, who are gathered here,
the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
SIGNING OF THE REGISTER (**music**)
INTRODUCTION OF THE BRIDE AND GROOM
PROCESSION. Recessional Music: **(insert name of music, or if you wish People to sing along to a hymn, print the hymn here).
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SAMPLE VERSION OF A WEDDING MASS (EUCHARIST) ORDER OF SERVICE BOOKLET…. new corrected translation.
THE MARRIAGE
OF
(GROOM'S FIRST NAME) (GROOM'S MIDDLE NAMES) (GROOMS SURNAME)
And
(BRIDES FIRST NAME) (BRIDES MIDDLE NAMES) (Bride's Surname)
(DATE OF THE WEDDING)
(Time of the wedding)
* (Please fill in the options where indicated, using the wedding readings and prayers booklet that you were given by the priest.
ENTRANCE MUSIC (**Insert name of music, or if you wish people to sing along to a hymn, print the hymn name and words here).
GREETING OF THE BRIDE at the foot of the Sanctuary steps
Priest: (optional) Who presents this Bride
(E.g.) Father of the Bride: I do
Priest: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
All: Amen.
Priest: The Lord be with you
All: And with your spirit.
Words of Welcome (Priest)
COLLECT PRAYER (Priest)
Let us Pray,
**(insert opening prayer, OPTIONS 1-4)***
LIGHTING OF FAMILY CANDLES. (optional)
THE FIRST READING
(Read by family member or friend)
(**insert reading here, OPTIONS NUMBER 5-10)
(at the end of the reading….)
Reader: The word of the Lord.
All: Thanks be to God.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
(**INSERT OPTIONS27-34h )
(The psalm can be done in several ways. The nicest way is to print the psalm in the order of service and invite the congregation to read it all out together. Another way is to print the ‘response’ that the congregation says at the end of each line and get a family member or friend to read out the verses. Alternatively, a well-known religious hymn could be sung here if you choose)
THE SECOND READING (OPTIONAL)
(Read by family member or friend)
(** INSERT OPTIONS11-18)
(at the end of the reading….)
Reader: The word of the Lord.
All: Thanks be to God.
GOSPEL (By Priest)
Priest: The Lord be with you
All: And with your spirit.
A reading from the Holy Gospel According to…..
All Respond: Glory to You, O Lord.
(** INSERT OPTIONS 19-26**)
(at the end of the reading….)
Priest: The Gospel of the Lord.
All: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
HOMILY (By Priest)
THE CELEBRATION OF MATRIMONY
Introduction
Dearly beloved,
you have come together into the house of the Church,
so that in the presence of the Church’s minister and the community
your intention to enter into Marriage
may be strengthened by the Lord with a sacred seal.
Christ abundantly blesses the love that binds you.
Through a special Sacrament,
he enriches and strengthens
those he has already consecrated by Holy Baptism,
that they may be faithful to each other forever
and assume all the responsibilities of married life.
And so, in the presence of the Church,
I ask you to state your intentions.
Questions Before the Consent
(BRIDE FIRST NAME), AND (GROOM’S FIRST NAME),
have you come here to enter into Marriage
without coercion,
freely and wholeheartedly?
The bridegroom and bride each say:
I have.
Are you prepared, as you follow the path of Marriage,
to love and honour each other
for as long as you both shall live?
I am.
Are you prepared to accept children lovingly from God
and to bring them up
according to the law of Christ and his Church?
I am.
Consent
Since it is your intention to enter the covenant of Holy Matrimony,
join your right hands and declare your consent
before God and his Church.
The bridegroom says:
I, (GROOM’S FIRST NAME), take you, (BRIDE FIRST NAME), to be my wife.
I promise to be faithful to you,
in good times and in bad,
in sickness and in health,
to love you and to honour you
all the days of my life.
The bride says:
I, (BRIDE FIRST NAME), take you, (GROOM’S FIRST NAME), to be my husband.
I promise to be faithful to you,
in good times and in bad,
in sickness and in health,
to love you and to honour you
all the days of my life.
Reception of Consent
May the Lord in his kindness strengthen the consent
you have declared before the Church,
and graciously bring to fulfillment his blessing within you.
What God joins together, let no one put asunder.
Let us bless the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Blessing of Rings
May the Lord bless + these rings,
which you will give to each other
as a sign of love and fidelity.
Amen.
Giving of Rings
The bridegroom places his wife's ring on her ring finger, saying, as the circumstances so suggest:
(BRIDE FIRST NAME), receive this ring
as a sign of my love and fidelity.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit.
Likewise, the bride places her husband's ring on his ring finger, saying, as the circumstances so suggest:
(GROOM’S FIRST NAME), receive this ring
as a sign of my love and fidelity.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit.
*LIGHTING OF WEDDING CANDLE (OPTIONAL) *
Universal Prayer
Dear brothers and sisters,
as we call to mind the special gift of grace and charity
by which God has been pleased to crown and consecrate
the love of our sister (BRIDE FIRST NAME) and our brother (GROOM’S FIRST NAME),
let us commend them to the Lord.
That these faithful Christians, (BRIDE FIRST NAME) and (GROOM’S FIRST NAME),
newly joined in Holy Matrimony,
may always enjoy health and well-being,
let us pray to the Lord.
R. Lord, we ask you, hear our prayer.
That he will bless their covenant
as he chose to sanctify marriage at Cana in Galilee,
let us pray to the Lord. R.
That they be granted perfect and fruitful love,
peace and strength,
and that they bear faithful witness to the name of Christian,
let us pray to the Lord. R.
That the Christian people
may grow in virtue day by day
and that all who are burdened by any need
may receive the help of grace from above,
let us pray to the Lord. R.
That the grace of the Sacrament
will be renewed by the Holy Spirit
in all married persons here present,
let us pray to the Lord. R.
Graciously pour out upon this husband and wife, O Lord,
the Spirit of your love,
to make them one heart and one soul,
so that nothing whatever may divide those you have joined
and no harm come to those you have filled with your blessing.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
THE LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST
Preparation of the Offerings
Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation,
for through your goodness, we have received
the bread we offer you:
fruit of the earth and work of human hands,
it will become for us the bread of life.
Blessed be God for ever.
Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation,
for through your goodness we have received
the wine we offer you:
fruit of the vine and work of human hands,
it will become our spiritual drink.
Blessed be God for ever.
Prayer over the Offerings
Pray, brothers and sisters,
that my sacrifice and yours
may be acceptable to God,
the almighty Father.
May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands
for the praise and glory of his name,
for our good
and the good of all his holy Church.
Receive, we pray, O Lord,
the offering made on the occasion
of this sealing of the sacred bond of Marriage,
and, just as your goodness is its origin,
may your providence guide its course.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Eucharistic Prayer II (Marriage)
The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them up to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right and just.
It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation,
always and everywhere to give you thanks,
Lord, holy Father, almighty and eternal God,
through Christ our Lord.
For in him you have made a new covenant with your people,
so that, as you have redeemed man and woman
by the mystery of Christ’s Death and Resurrection,
so in Christ, you might make them partakers of divine nature
and joint heirs with him of heavenly glory.
In the union of husband and wife
you give a sign of Christ’s loving gift of grace,
so that the Sacrament we celebrate
might draw us back more deeply
into the wondrous design of your love.
And so, with the Angels and all the Saints,
we praise you and without end we acclaim:
Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts.
Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest.
Amen
You are indeed Holy, O Lord,
the fount of all holiness.
Make holy, therefore, these gifts, we pray,
by sending down your Spirit upon them like the dewfall,
so that they may become for us
the Body and + Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.
At the time he was betrayed
and entered willingly into his Passion,
he took bread and, giving thanks, broke it,
and gave it to his disciples, saying:
TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND EAT OF IT,
FOR THIS IS MY BODY,
WHICH WILL BE GIVEN UP FOR YOU.
In a similar way, when supper was ended,
he took this precious chalice
in his holy and venerable hands,
and once more giving you thanks, he said the blessing
and gave the chalice to his disciples, saying:
TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND DRINK FROM IT,
FOR THIS IS THE CHALICE OF MY BLOOD,
THE BLOOD OF THE NEW AND ETERNAL COVENANT
WHICH WILL BE POURED OUT FOR YOU AND FOR MANY
FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS.
DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME.
The mystery of faith.
We proclaim your Death, O Lord,
and profess your Resurrection
until you come again.
Or:
When we eat this Bread and drink this Cup,
We proclaim your Death, O Lord,
until you come again.
Or:
Save us, Saviour of the world,
for by your Cross and Resurrection
you have set us free.
Therefore, as we celebrate the memorial of his Death and Resurrection, we offer you, Lord, the Bread of life and the Chalice of salvation, giving thanks that you have held us worthy to be in your presence and minister to you.
Humbly we pray that partaking of the Body and Blood of Christ, we may be gathered into one by the Holy Spirit.
Remember, Lord, your Church, spread throughout the world, and bring her to the fullness of charity, together with N. our Pope and N. our Bishop* and all the clergy.
Be mindful also, Lord, of (BRIDE FIRST NAME) and (GROOM’S FIRST NAME), whom you have brought to their wedding day, so that by your grace they may abide in mutual love and in peace.
Remember also our brothers and sisters who have fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection, and all who have died in your mercy: welcome them into the light of your face.
Have mercy on us all, we pray, that with the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Blessed Joseph her Spouse, with the blessed Apostles, and all the Saints who have pleased you throughout the ages, we may merit to be coheirs to eternal life, and may praise and glorify you through your Son, Jesus Christ.
Through him, and with him, and in him,
O God, almighty Father,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
all glory and honour is yours,
forever and ever.
Amen.
Communion Rite
Lord's Prayer
As sons and daughters of a loving God, we pray in the confident words of his Son:
Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us,
and lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil.
Invitation to Nuptial Blessing
Dear brothers and sisters,
let us humbly pray to the Lord
that on these his servants, now married in Christ,
he may mercifully pour out
the blessing of his grace
and make of one heart in love
(by the Sacrament of Christ’s Body and Blood)
those he has joined by a holy covenant
Nuptial Blessing B
Holy Father,
who formed man in your own image,
male and female you created them,
so that as husband and wife, united in body and heart,
they might fulfill their calling in the world;
O God, who, to reveal the great design you formed in your love,
willed that the love of spouses for each other
should foreshadow the covenant you graciously made with your people,
so that, by fulfillment of the sacramental sign,
the mystical marriage of Christ with his Church
might become manifest
in the union of husband and wife among your faithful;
Graciously stretch out your right hand
over these your servants ((BRIDE FIRST NAME) and (GROOM’S FIRST NAME)), we pray,
and pour into their hearts the power of the Holy Spirit.
Grant, O Lord,
that, as they enter upon this sacramental union,
they may share with one another the gifts of your love
and, by being for each other a sign of your presence,
become one heart and one mind.
May they also sustain, O Lord, by their deeds
the home they form
to become members of your heavenly household
walking in the ways of the Gospel.
Graciously crown with your blessings your daughter (BRIDE FIRST NAME),
so that, by being a good wife and mother,
she may bring warmth to her home with a love that is pure
and adorn it with welcoming graciousness.
Bestow a heavenly blessing also, O Lord,
on (GROOM’S FIRST NAME), your servant,
that he may be a worthy, good and faithful husband and a provident father.
Grant, Holy Father,
that, desiring to approach your table
as a couple joined in Marriage in your presence,
they may one day have the joy
of taking part in your great banquet in heaven.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Sign of Peace
The peace of the Lord be with you always.
And with your spirit.
Let us offer each other the sign of peace.
Breaking of the Bread
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world,
have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world,
have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world,
grant us peace.
Prayer after Communion:
By the power of this sacrifice, O Lord,
accompany with your loving favour
what in your providence you have instituted,
so as to make of one heart in love
those you have already joined in this holy union
(and replenished with the one Bread and the one Chalice).
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
THE CONCLUSION OF THE CELEBRATION
Blessing
Let us bow our heads and pray for God's blessing:
May God the eternal Father
keep you of one heart in love for one another,
that the peace of Christ may dwell in you
and abide always in your home.
Amen.
May you be blessed in your children,
have solace in your friends
and enjoy true peace with everyone.
Amen.
May you be witnesses in the world to God’s charity,
so that the afflicted and needy who have known your kindness
may one day receive you thankfully
into the eternal dwelling of God.
Amen.
And may almighty God bless all of you, who are gathered here,
the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
SIGNING OF THE REGISTER (**music**)
INTRODUCTION OF THE BRIDE AND GROOM
PROCESSION. Recessional Music: **(insert name of music, or if you wish People to sing along to a hymn, print the hymn here).
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