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Chesney
&
Jamae
Father, You have made the bond of marriage
a Holy Mystery. May You bless us as we
exchange our vows today, with faith in You
and in each other. We pray for each and
everyone who are gathered today
for them to always be there to support and
help us through the many years of our married
life.
Final Blessing ENTRANCE RITE
Priest: May God the Eternal Father keep you on one heart in CHESNEY and JAMAE are here today, to seal their
love for one another, that the peace of Christ may lifelong commitment and gift of self to each other.
dwell in you and abide always in your home. As they take this meaningful step, let us
accompany them with our prayers and songs, love
People: Amen. and generous wishes, as we join them actively in
this Eucharistic Celebration.
Priest: May you be blessed in your children. Have solace in
your friends and enjoy true peace with everyone. Entrance of Entourage:
Priest: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Priest: May you be witnesses in the world to God’s charity, so
Holy Spirit.
that the afflicted and needy who have known your
kindness may one day receive you thankfully into the
People: Amen
eternal dwelling of God.
Priest: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of
People: Amen.
God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with
you all.
Priest: And may Almighty God bless you all, in the name of
the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
People: And with your Spirit.
People: Amen.
Priest: CHESNEY and JAMAE, God is love and has, in a
mysterious way, drawn you together in love. But He
Priest: Go in peace to love and serve the Lord. Now CHESNEY
leaves you free - to make that love grow or to let it
and JAMAE, continue loving one another.
wither and die.
People: Thanks be to God.
the peace and unity in accordance with your will, who live and reign lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
forever and ever. one God, for ever and ever.
Priest: The peace of the Lord be with you always. Commentator: Please be seated and listen to the word of God.
Priest: Let us offer each other the sign of peace. First Reading: Sirach 26, 1-4, 13-16
Commentator: We all kneel. Happy the husband of a good wife, twice-lengthened are his days;
A worthy wife brings joy to her husband, peaceful and full is his life.
Priest: Behold the Lamb of God, behold Him who takes away
the sins of the world. Blessed are those called to the A good wife is generous gift bestowed upon him who fears the Lord;
supper of the Lamb.
Be the rich or poor, his heart is content, and a smile is ever on his
People: Lord, I am not worthy that You should enter under face.
my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be
A gracious wife delights her husband, her thoughtfulness puts flesh
healed.
on his bones; A gift from the Lord is her governed speech, and her
Priest: May the body and blood of Christ bring us to
firm virtues is surpassing worth. Choicest of blessings is a modest
everlasting life.
wife, priceless her chaste person. Like the sun rising in the Lord’s
People: Amen.
heavens, the beauty of a virtuous wife is the radiance of her home.
HOLY COMMUNION The World of the Lord.
People: Thanks be to God.
Commentator: Let us all be seated to prepare ourselves for Holy
Communion. May we ask the photographers not to Responsorial Psalm:
disturb CHESNEY and JAMAE in their prayers after
Reader: Let our response be
Holy Communion. Kindly respect Jesus whom they first
The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.
received.
People: The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.
Spirit. Remember, Lord, Your Church, spread Jesus answered, “’Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with
throughout the world, and bring her to the fullness of all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and the
charity, together with Francis our Pope, Victor our most important commandment. The second most important
Bishop, and all the clergy. commandment is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as you love yourself.’
The whole Law of Moses and the teachings of the prophets depend
Be mindful also, Lord of CHESNEY and JAMAE whom on these two commandments.”
You have brought to their wedding day, so that by
Your grace they may abide in mutual love and in The Gospel of the Lord.
peace.
People: Praise to you, O Lord, Jesus Christ.
Remember also our brothers and sisters who have Commentator: Please be seated and listen to the homily.
fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection, and all
HOMILY
who have died in Your mercy; welcome them into the
light of Your face. Have mercy on us all, we pray, that THE RITE OF MARRIAGE
with the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with
Allocution
Blessed Joseph, her spouse, with the blessed Apostles,
and all the saints who have pleased You throughout Priest: Dearly beloved CHESNEY and JAMAE, you are here
the ages, we may merit to be coheirs to eternal life, today to seal your love with eternal bond before the
and may praise and glorify You through Your Son, Church. I assure you of the prayers of our community,
Jesus Christ. that God pour His abundant blessings on your love and
help you to carry out the duties of the married state.
Through Him, and with him, and in Him, O God, And you brothers and sisters, may I ask you to help
Almighty Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all CHESNEY and JAMAE with your prayers and accept
glory and honor is Yours, for ever and ever. them as a new couple in our Christian community.
People: And with your Spirit Priest: Do you accept JAMAE as your lawful wife?
People: We lift them up to the Lord. Priest: Now, please pray together that our Lord may bless
and bind you in marriage.
Priest: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
CHESNEY and JAMAE:
People: It is right and just. Grant us, O Lord/To be one heart and one soul/
From this day forward/For better or for worse/
Priest: It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation, For richer, for poorer/In sickness and in health/
always and everywhere to give You thanks, Lord, Holy To love and cherish/Until death do us part.
Father, Almighty and Eternal God.
CONFIRMATION OF THE MARRIAGE BOND
For you have forged the covenant of marriage as a
sweet yoke of harmony and an unbreakable bond of Priest: And I, by the authority of the Church, calling on those
peace, so that the chaste and fruitful love of Holy here present as witnesses, confirm and bless this bond
Matrimony may serve to increase the children You of marriage, which you have contracted. In the name
adopt as Your own. of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.