Entrance Procession (Please Stand)
Entrance Hymn
Introductory Rites
Priest: In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
All: Amen
Priest: The Grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
All: And with your spirit.
Lighting of the Candles
The wedding couple each light a candle representing their individuality and uniqueness.
The Penitential Rite
All: I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God.
Priest: Lord have mercy
All: Lord have mercy
Priest: Christ have mercy
All: Christ have mercy
Priest: Lord have mercy
All: Lord have mercy
Opening Prayer
Priest: Be attentive to our prayers, O Lord, and in your kindness pour out your grace on these your servants…………..and ………………. that, coming before your altar, they may be confirmed in love for one another. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
All: Amen
Please be seated.
Liturgy of The Word
First Reading:
A Reading from the Book of Genesis (2:18-24)
The Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helper.’ So from the soil the Lord God fashioned all the wild animals and all the birds of the heavens. These he brought to the man to see what he would call them; each one was to bear the name the man would give it. The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of air and all the wild beasts. But no helper suitable for man was found for him. So, the Lord God made the man fall into a deep sleep. And while he slept, he took one of his ribs and enclosed it in flesh. The Lord fashioned the rib he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man. The man said: ‘This at last is bone from my bones, and flesh from my flesh! She is to be called woman, for this was taken from man.’ That is why a man leaves his father and mother and joins himself to his wife, and they become one flesh.
The Word of the Lord
All: Thanks be to God
Responsorial Psalm (Sung)
Second Reading:
A reading from the First Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians (12:31-13:8.)
Set your mind on the higher gifts. And now, I am going to show you a way that is better than any of them. If I have all the eloquence of men or of angels, but speak without love, I am simply a gong booming or a cymbal clashing. If I have the gift of prophecy, understanding all the mysteries there are, and knowing everything, and if I have faith in all its fullness, to move mountains, but without love, then I am nothing at all. If I give away all that I possess, piece by piece, and if I even let them take my body to burn it, but am without love, it will do me no good whatever. Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offence, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end.
The word of the Lord
All: Thanks be to God
Pease Stand
Gospel Acclamation
Alleluia, Alleluia!
God is love; let us love one another as God has loved us.
Alleluia!
The Gospel
Priest: The Lord be with you.
All: And with your spirit.
Priest: A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew
All: Glory to you Lord
One of the Pharisees, a lawyer asked Him a question to test Him. “Teacher, which commandment in the Law is the greatest?” Jesus said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the Prophets.”
Priest: The Gospel of the Lord.
All: Praise be to you Lord Jesus Christ
Please be seated
Homily
The Rite of Marriage
Priest: Dear Children of God, you have come to this Church so that the Lord may seal your love in the presence of the priest and this community. Christ blesses this love. He has already consecrated you in Baptism; now, by a special sacrament, He strengthens you to fulfil the duties of your married life.
……………….and ………………….(Bride and Groom). you are about to celebrate this sacrament.
Have you come here of your own free will and choice and without compulsion to marry each other?
Bride and Groom: We have
Priest: Will you love and honour each other in marriage and all the days of your life?
Bride and Groom: We will
Priest: Are you willing to accept with love the children God may send you, and bring them up in accordance with the law of Christ and His Church?
Bride and Groom: We are
Declaration of Consent
Priest: I invite you then to declare before God and His Church your consent to become husband and wife.
Groom: I, ……………, take you, …………………as my wife, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, all the days of my life.
Bride: I…………, take you…………………as my husband, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, all the days of my life.
Priest: What God joins together man must not separate. May the Lord confirm the consent that you have given and enrich you with His blessings.
All: Amen
Blessings of The Rings
Priest: Lord, bless ………… and ……………… and consecrate their married life. May these rings be a symbol of their faith in each other, and a reminder of their love. Through Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.
Exchange of The Rings
Groom: ………………, wear this ring as a sign of our faithful love in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Bride: …………………, wear this ring as a sign of our faithful love in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Lighting of The Candles
Bride and Groom light the central candle together. This symbolises the fact that they are now one in marriage.
Prayers of The Newly Married Couple
Bride and Groom
We thank you, Lord, and we praise you for bringing us to this happy day. You have given us to each other. Now, together, we give ourselves to you. We ask you, Lord, make us one in your love; keep us one in your peace. Protect our marriage. Bless our home. Make us gentle. Keep us faithful. And when life is over unite us again where parting is no more in the kingdom of your love. There we will praise you in the happiness and peace of our eternal home.
All: Amen
Please stand
Prayers of The Faithful
We pray for …………………and ………………….., as they begin their married life together, we ask you to bless them with good health, peace and happiness.
Lord hear us
All: Lord graciously hear us.
We pray for all the couples here today, may they be reminded of the joy of their own love. We ask that they may continue to find happiness and love each other.
Lord hear us
All: Lord graciously hear us.
We thank God for the gift of friendship. It has greatly enriched the lives of ………………….and …………, whose friends have always been there for them and have brought them much love, laughter and happiness.
Lord hear us
All: Lord graciously hear us.
Let us pray for the parents, siblings, and relatives of ………………..and ………………….. We thank them for their love, help and support.
Lord hear us
All: Lord graciously hear us.
We pray for al those who are unwell, and all those who provide care for them. May they have strength, courage and hope.
Lord hear us
All: Lord graciously hear us.
Let us pray for all the people who have travelled from near and far to be here. May they enjoy their time here with us and return home safely with the blessing of God upon them.
Lord hear us
All: Lord graciously hear us.
We pray for peace, peace in our hearts, our homes, our country and all over the world.
Lord hear us
All: Lord graciously hear us.
We pray for all those who have gone to rest before us. We pray especially for………………………… mother…………..his brother ……………….his grandparents……………………and for ………………………….May the Lord unite us again in the joys of our eternal home.
Lord hear us
All: Lord graciously hear us.
Please be seated
The Liturgy of The Eucharist
Offertory Procession Hymn
Please kneel
Priest: Pray, brothers and sisters, that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God the Father almighty.
All: 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.
Priest: Lord, receive the offering made on the occasion of the sacred bond of Marriage, and, just as your goodness is its origin, may your providence guide its course.
All: Amen
The Eucharistic Prayer
Priest: The Lord be with you.
All: And with your spirit
Priest: Lift up your hearts.
All: We lift them up to the Lord.
Priest: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
All: It is right and just.
Priest: 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. For you willed that the human race, created by the gift of your goodness, should be raised to such high dignity that in the union of husband and wife you might bestow a true image of your love. For those you created out of charity you call to the law of charity without ceasing and grant them a share in your eternal charity. And so, the Sacrament of holy Matrimony, as the abiding sign of your own love, consecrates the love of man and woman, through Christ our Lord. Through him, with the Angels and all the Saints, we sing the hymn of your praise, as without end we acclaim.
All:
Holy Holy Holy Lord, 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.
Priest: You are indeed Holy, O Lord, and all you have created rightly gives you praise, for through your Son our Lord Jesus Christ, by the power and working of the Holy Spirit, you give life to all things and make them holy, and you never cease to gather a people to yourself, so that from the rising of the sun to its setting a pure sacrifice may be offered to your name. Therefore, O Lord, we humbly implore you: by the same Spirit graciously make holy these gifts we have brought to you for consecration, that they may become the Body and Blood of your Son our Lord Jesus Christ, at whose command we celebrate these mysteries. For on the Night, he was betrayed, he himself took bread, and, giving you thanks, He said the blessing, broke the bread 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 the chalice, and, 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.
All: When we eat this Bread and drink this cup, we proclaim your Death, O Lord, until you come again.
Priest: Therefore, O Lord, as we celebrate the memorial of the saving Passion of your Son, his wondrous Resurrection and Ascension into heaven, and as we look forward to his second coming, we offer you in thanksgiving this holy and living sacrifice. Look, we pray, upon the oblation of your Church and, recognising the sacrificial Victim by whose death you willed to reconcile us to yourself, grant that we, who are nourished by the Body and Blood of your Son and filled with his Holy Spirit, may become one body, one spirit in Christ.
May he make us and eternal offering to you, so that we may obtain and inheritance with your elect, especially with the most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with St. Joseph her spouse, with your Blessed Apostles and glorious Martyrs, and with all the Saints, on whose constant intercession we rely for unfailing help.
May this Sacrifice of our reconciliation, we pray, O Lord, advance the peace and salvation of all the world.
Be pleased to confirm in faith and charity your pilgrim Church on earth, with our Pope Francis and Tom, our Bishop, and the entire people you have gained for your own.
Listen graciously to the prayers of this family, whom you have summoned before you.
Strengthen, we pray, in the grace of Marriage……………….and …………………… whom you have brought happily to their wedding day, that under your protection they may always be faithful in their lives to the covenant they have sealed in your presence.
In your compassion, O merciful Father, gather to yourself all your children scattered throughout the world.
To our departed brothers and sisters and to all who were pleasing to you at their passing from this life, give kind admittance to your kingdom.
There we hope to enjoy forever the fullness of your glory through Christ our Lord through whom you bestow on the world all that is good.
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, for ever and every.
All: Amen
The Communion Rite
Please stand
All: Our Father who art in heaven….
Nuptial Blessing
Let us humbly invoke by our prayers, dear brothers and sisters, God’s blessing upon this bride and groom, that in his kindness he may favour with his help those on whom he has bestowed the Sacrament of Matrimony.
Holy Father, maker of the whole world, who created man and woman in your image and willed that their union be crowned with your blessing, we humbly beseech you for these your servants, who are joined today in the Sacrament of Matrimony. May your abundant blessing, Lord, come down upon this bride, …………………… and upon…………………..,her companion for life, and may the power of your Holy Spirit set their hearts aflame from on high, so that, living out together the gift of Matrimony, they may enrich the Church. In happiness may they praise you, O Lord, in sorrow may they seek you out; may they have the joy of your presence to assist them in their toil, and know that you are near to comfort them in their need; let them pray to you in the holy assembly and bear witness to you in the world, and after a happy old age, together with the circle of friends that surrounds them, may they come to the kingdom of Heaven. Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Priest: Lord Jesus Christ, you said to your apostles: I leave you peace, my peace I give you. Look not on our sins, but on the faith of your Church and grant us the peace and unity of your kingdom where you live forever and ever.
All: Amen
Priest: The peace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you always.
All: And with your spirit.
Priest: Let us offer one another a sign of peace.
All: 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.
Please kneel
Priest: Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who takes away the sins of the world, Blessed
are those who are called to the supper of the Lamb.
All: Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.
Please be seated.
Communion
Hymns
Reflection
Please kneel
Prayer After Communion
Priest: Let us pray
Having been made partakers at your table, we pray, O Lord, that those who are united by the Sacrament of Marriage may always hold fast to you and proclaim your name to the world. We ask this through Christ our Lord.
All: Amen
Concluding Rite
Priest: 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.
All: Amen
Priest: May you be blessed in your children, have solace in your friends and enjoy true peace with everyone.
All: Amen
Priest: May you be witnesses in the world of 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
All: Amen.
Priest: And may almighty God bless all of you, who are gathered here, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
All: Amen
Priest: Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.
All: Thanks be to God.
Signing of The Register
Hymns
Pease stand.
