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Readings for Your Wedding
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We encourage you to spend time in prayer with your fianceé to choose the readings which best speaks to your hopes and dreams for your marriage. Please choose one reading from the Old Testament, One Responsorial Psalm and one reading from the New Testament for your Wedding Mass readings.
Click on each title below to see the entire reading.
Lectors chosen to read must be Catholic. You may choose one lector to do all readings or one lector for each reading. The Responsorial Psalm can be read or sung. Please consult with your music minister and let the parish office know if it will be read or sung.
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Old Testament Readings
- Genesis 1:26-28, 31a - Male and female He created them
- Genesis 2:18-24 - The two of them become one body
- Genesis 24:48-51, 58-67 In his love for Rebekah, Isaac found solace after the death of his mother
- Tobit 7:6-14 - May the Lord of heaven prosper you both. May he grant you mercy and peace
- Tobit 8:4b-8 - Allow us to live together to a happy old age.
- Proverbs 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-31 - The woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
- Song of Songs 2:8-10, 14, 16a, 8:6:6-7a - Stern as death is love
- Sirach 26:1-4, 13-16 - The beauty of a virtuous wife is the radiance of her home
- Jeremiah 31:31-32a, 33-34a - I will make a new covenant
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Responsorial Psalms (Can be sung or read)
- Psalm 33:12 and 18, 20-21, 22 - The earth is full of the goodness
- Psalm 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 - I will bless the Lord at all times
- Psalm 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 - Taste and See the Goodness of the Lord
- Psalm 103: 1-2, 8 and 13, 17-18a - The Lord is kind and merciful
- Psalm 112:1bc--2, 8 and 3-4, 5-7a, 7bc-8,9 - Blessed the man...
- Psalm 128:1-2,3, 4-5ac and 6a - Blessed are those who fear the Lord
- Psalm 145:8-9, 10 and 15, 17-18 - How good is the Lord to all
- Psalm 148:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-13ab, 13c-14a - Let all praise the name of the Lord
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New Testament Readings
- Romans 8:31b-35, 37-39 - What will separate us from the love of Christ
- Romans 12:1-2, 9-18 (Long Form) - Offer your bodies as a living sacrifice
- Romans 12:1-2, 9-13(Short Form) - Offer your bodies as a living sacrifice
- Romans 15:1b-3a, 5-7, 13 - Welcome one another as Christ welcomed you
- 1 Corinthians 6:13c-15a, 17-20 - Your body is a temple of the Spirit
- 1 Corinthians 12:31-13:8a - If I do not have love, I gain nothing
- Ephesians 4:1-6 - One Body and one Spirit
- Ephesians 5:2a, 21-33 - A great mystery Christ and the Church (Long Form)
- Ephesians 5:2a, 21-32 - A great mystery Christ and the Church (Short Form)
- Philippians 4:4-9 - The God peace will be with you
- Colossians 3:12-17 - And over all these put on love
- Hebrews 13:1-4a, 5-6b - Let marriage be held in honor by all
- 1 Peter 3:1-9 - Be of one mind, sympathetic, loving toward one another
- 1 John 3:18-24 - Love in deed and in truth
- 1 John 4:7-12 - God is Love
- Revelation 19:1, 5-9a - Blessed are those who have been called to the wedding feast of the lamb