THE RITE OF MARRIAGE Final

GOSIAOCO & SAGUIRRE
NUPTIAL

September 9, 2016

THE RITE OF MARRIAGE

Introductory Rites

At the appointed time, the bridal procession begins accompanied by
nuptial music or songs. When the Bride, the Groom and the entourage
have taken their respective places, the Mass begins.

Commentator: Good day, brothers and sisters. Today, we gather as a
community to participate to the Holy Eucharist and to witness the
celebration of the Sacrament of Marriage between Arjay and Myra.

Please, everybody stand to welcome the Mass Celebrant.

Priest: In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy
People: Spirit.
Priest:
People: Amen.
Priest:
The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God
1 and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

And with your spirit

Dear brothers and sisters, we gathered to celebrate the
Holy Eucharist and to witness the Sacrament of Marriage
between Arjay and Myra.

As Their Christian Family, we remind them that they are
called to a life of holiness and fidelity as husband and
wife. Let us rejoice with them and ask God’s blessing for
them and their future children.

Penitential act

Priest: Brothers and sisters let us acknowledge our sins, and so
prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.

Priest & People: 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: May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins,
and bring us to everlasting life.

People: Amen

Priest: Lord have mercy.

People: Lord have mercy.

Priest: Christ have mercy.

People: Christ have mercy.

Priest: Lord have mercy.

People: Lord have mercy.

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The Glory

Priest & People: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth
peace to people of good will. We praise you, we bless
you, we adore you, we glorify you, we give you thanks
for your great glory, Lord God, heavenly King, O
God, and almighty Father. Lord Jesus Christ, Only
Begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the
Father, you take away the sins of the world, have
mercy on us; you take away the sins of the world,
receive our prayer; you are seated at the right hand
of the Father, have mercy on us. For you alone are the
Holy one, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the
Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy spirit, in the
glory of God the Father. Amen.

Collect

Priest: Let us pray. Be attentive to our prayers, O Lord, and in
your Kindness uphold what you have established for the
People: increase of the human race, so that the union you have
Comm: created between Arjay and Myra may be kept safe by
your assistance. 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.

Amen.

Please be seated for the Liturgy of the Word.

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LITURGY OF THE WORD

Reader: FIRST READING

Reader: (Genesis 2:18-24)
People:
A reading from the Book of Genesis.

Then the Lord God said: “It is not good for the man to be
alone. I will make a suitable partner for him.” So the
Lord God formed out of the ground various wild animals
and various birds of the air, and he brought them to the
man to see what he would call them; whatever the man
called each of them would be its name. The man gave
names to all the cattle, all the birds of the air, and all the
wild animals; but none proved to be suitable partner for
the man.

So the Lord God cast a deep sleep on the man, and while
he was asleep, he took one of his ribs and closed up its
place with flesh. The Lord God then built up into a
woman the rib that he had taken from the man. When he
brought her to the man said; “This one, at last, is bone of
my bones and flesh from my flesh; This one shall be
called ‘woman,’ for out of ‘her man’ this one has been
taken.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother
and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one
body.

The Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

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Responsorial Psalm

(Psalm 128)

Reader: Let our response be: Happy are those who fear the Lord.
People:
Reader: Happy are those who fear the Lord.

People: Happy are you who fear the Lord, who walk on his ways!
Reader: For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork; happy shall
you be, and favored.
People:
Reader: Happy are those who fear the Lord.

People: Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the recess of
your home, your children’s like olive plants around your
table.

Happy are those who fear the Lord.

Behold, thus in the man blessed who fears the Lord. The
Lord bless you from Zion: may you see the prosperity of
Jerusalem all the days of your life.

Happy are those who fear the Lord.

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Reader: Second Reading

Reader: (Ephesians 5:21-32)
People:
Comm: A reading from the Letter of St. Paul to the Ephesians.

Beloved, be subordinate to one another out of reverence
for Christ. Wives should be subordinate to their husbands
as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of his wife
just as Christ is the head of the church, he himself the
Savior of the body. As the Church is subordinate to
Christ, so wives should be subordinate to their husbands
in everything.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the
Church and handed himself over for her. Husbands
should love their wives as their own bodies. He who
loves his wife loves himself. For this reason a man shall
leave father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the
two shall become one flesh. This is a great mystery, but I
speak in reference to Christ and the Church.

The word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

Please, all stand to honor the Holy Gospel.

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Gospel Acclamation

People: Alleluia, Alleluia.
Reader:
People: God is Love; let us love one another as he has loved us.

Priest: Alleluia; Alleluia.
People:
Priest: Gospel
People:
Priest: (Matthew 19; 3-6)

The Lord be with you.

And with your spirit.

A reading from the holy Gospel according to St.
Matthew.

Glory to you, O Lord

Some Pharisees approached him, and tested him,
saying:” Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any
cause whatsoever?” He said in reply,” Have you not read
that from the beginning the Creator’ made them male and
female’ and said,’ for this reason a man shall leave his
father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two
shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but
one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no
human being must separate.”

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Priest: The Gospel of the Lord.
People: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Comm: Please, all be seated and listen to the homily

(Homily)

Rite of Marriage

Comm: All remain seated. The Bride and the Groom please stand
Priest: for the Rite of Marriage. May I request the principal
sponsors to stand beside the couple.
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Allocution

Dearly Beloved Arjay and Myra, You are here today to
seal your love with an eternal bond before the Church. I
assure you of the prayers of our community, that God
pour his abundant blessings on your love and help you
carry out the duties of the married state. And you
(addressing the congregation), dear brothers and
sisters, may I ask you to help them with your prayers and
accept them as a new couple in our Christian
Community.

Scrutiny

Priest: May I now ask you to answer truthfully the following
Priest: question.

Bride: Myra (Bride), did you come here of your own free will
Priest: to bind yourself for ever in the love and service of your
husband?
Groom:
Yes, Father.

Arjay (Groom), did you come here of your own free will
to bind yourself for ever in the love and service of your
wife?

Yes, Father.

Priest: Are you both ready to raise as good Christians the
children whom God will give you?

Bride & Groom: Yes, Father

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Exchange of Consent

Priest: Arjay and Myra, since you wish to contract Holy
Matrimony, please join your right hands and express
Priest: your intention before God and his Church.

Bride: Myra (Bride), do you take Arjay (Groom) here present,
Priest: for your lawful husband, according to the rite of the Holy
Bride: Mother, the Church?
Priest:
Bride: Yes, I do.
Priest:
Do you give yourself to him as his wife?
Groom:
Priest: Yes, I do.
Groom:
Priest: Do you accept him as your lawful husband?
Groom:
Priest: Yes, I do.

Arjay (Groom), do you take Myra (Bride) here present,
for your lawful wife, according to the rite of our Holy
Mother, the Church?

Yes, I do.

Do you give yourself to her as her husband?

Yes, I do

Do you accept her as your lawful wife?

Yes, I do.

Now, please recite this prayer

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Bride & Groom: Grant us, O Lord, to be one heart and one
soul, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer,
for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part.

Confirmation of the
Marriage Bond

Priest: And I, by the authority of the Church, on all those
People: present here as witnesses, confirm and bless the bond of
marriage which you have contracted. In the name of the
Father, and of the Son, + and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Blessing of the Rings

and the Arrhae

Priest: Arjay and Myra, we shall now bless your rings and
People: arrhae. Our help is in the name of the Lord.

He made heaven and earth.

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Priest: Let us pray. Bless, + O Lord, these rings, so that your
People: servants Arjay and Myra., who wear them, may ever live
in mutual love and in unbroken loyalty. Through Christ
our Lord.

Amen.

Priest: Let us pray. Bless, + O Lord, your servants Arjay and
Myra., with sufficiency of material possessions, which
these arrhae symbolize, so that they may use to attain
eternal life. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

People: Amen.

The Priest sprinkles the rings and arrhae with Holy water

Priest: Now give these rings to each other.

The Groom places the ring on the ring finger of the Bride, saying

Groom: Myra, wear this ring as a sign of my love and fidelity.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy
Spirit.

The Bride places the ring on the ring finger of the Groom, saying

Bride: Arjay, wear this ring as a sign of my love and fidelity.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy
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The Groom takes the arrhae in both hands. The Bride
places her cupped hands under those of the groom. The
groom lets the arrhae fall into the hands of the Bride,
saying

Groom: Myra, I give you these arrhae as a pledge of my
Bride: dedication to your welfare. In the name of the father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

And I accept them.

The bride places the arrhae on the tray.

Comm: Please, all stand for the Profession of Faith. May I
request the principal sponsors to return to their respective
seats.

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Profession of Faith

Priest & People: I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker
of heaven and earth, of all things visible and
invisible.

I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only
Begotten Son of God, born of the Father before
all ages. God from God, Light from Light, true
God from true God, begotten, not made,
consubstantial with Father; through him all things
were made. For us men and for our salvation he
came down from heaven and by the Holy Spirit
was incarnate of the Virgin Mary and became
man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius
Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose
again on the third day in accordance with the
Scriptures. He will come again in glory to judge
the living and the dead and his kingdom will have
no end. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the
giver of life, who proceeds from the father and
the Son, who with the Father and the Son is
adored and glorified, who has spoken through the
prophets. I believe in one, holy, catholic and
apostolic Church. I confess one Baptism for the
forgiveness of sins and look forward to the
resurrection of the dead and the life of the world
to come Amen.

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Prayers of the Faithful

Priest: Dear brothers and sisters, let us now pray for the Church
and for our newly wedded couple, whose marriage
Reader: reflects the union of Christ and his Church. For every
petition we will say:
People:
Reader: Lord, hear our prayer.
People:
Reader: Let us pray for the church, which is the bride of Christ,
that she may always be faithful in her mission of
spreading the Good News of our Salvation and Christ’s
love for us. We pray.

Lord, hear our prayer.

Let us pray for our Government leaders that they may
become God’s instrument in protecting the family and
defend life at all cost. We pray.

Lord, hear our prayer.

Let us pray for all the needs of our brothers and sisters,
the sick, the handicapped, the prisoners and all those
abandoned by their love ones, that through their presence
in our community we may be enlightened and show our
charity with love. We pray.

People: Lord, hear our prayers.

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Reader: Let us pray for Arjay and Myra, united today in God’s
love, founding a new family in our Christian community,
People: May they become God’s faithful stewards an d
Reader: collaborators of God in rearing their future children. We
pray.
People:
Priest: Lord, hear our prayer.

People: Let us pray for the young people who will embrace the
Comm.: vocation to married life that they may learn from life and
experiences of others the beauty of love that comes from
generosity. We pray.

Lord, hear our prayer.

God, our father, look down with favor upon your
servants. Grant them to remain faithful to you and to one
another. At the end of a long and well – spent life,
reward them with eternal happiness, together with their
children and with those who love them. Through Christ
our Lord.

Amen.

Please, be seated for the liturgy of the Eucharist.

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Liturgy of the Eucharist

Rite of the Candle, the Veil and the Cord

Comm: May I request the Candle Sponsors to light the bridal
candles. The Veil Sponsors and the Cord Sponsor to
follow suit.

The Candle sponsors light two candles on both sides of
the spouses. The Veil sponsors lay the white veil over the
head of the Bride and the shoulders of the Groom.
Finally, the Cords Sponsors place the cord over the
shoulders of the couple in 8 – form.

Preparation of the Gift

After preparing the altar, the holds the paten with the
bread and says:

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Priest: Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation, for through
People: 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.

The priest pours wine and a little water into the chalice
and says:

Priest: Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation, for through we
People: 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.

Priest: After washing his hands, the priest says:
People:
Pray, brethren (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.

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Prayer Over the Offerings

Priest: Receive, we pray, O Lord, the offering made on the
People: occasion of the sealing of the sacred bond of Marriage
between Arjay and Myra and, just as your goodness is its
origin, may your providence guide its course, Through
Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Preface

Priest: The Lord be with you.
People:
Priest: And with your spirit.
People:
Priest: Lift up your hearts.
People:
Priest: 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. For you have forged
the covenant of marriage as a sweet yoke of harmony and
an unbreakable bond of peace. So that the chaste and
fruitful love of Holy Matrimony may serve to increase
the children you adopt as your own.

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By your providence and grace, O Lord, you
accomplished the wonder of this two fold design: that,
while birth of children brings beauty to the world, their
rebirth in Baptism gives increase to the Church, 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:

Sanctus

Priest & People: 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.

Consecration

Comm: Please, all kneel for the Consecration.
Priest:
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 disciples, saying:

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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, once
more giving thanks, he gave it 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.

Priest: The mystery of faith.
People:
We proclaim your Death, O Lord, and profess your
Comm: Resurrection until you come again.

Please, all stand. (Except the couple that remains
kneeling).

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Eucharistic Prayer

Priest: 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 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 FRANCIS our
Pope HONESTO our Bishop and all the Clergy.

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, with Blessed Joseph, her spouse,
with the Blessed Apostles, with St. Rita de
Cascia, and all the Saints who have pleased you
throughout the ages, we may merit to be coheirs
to eternal life, an d may praise and glorify you
through your Son, Jesus Christ.

The priest holds the chalice and the paten

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Priest: Through him, and with him, and in him, O God,
almighty Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory
and honor is yours, forever and ever

Communion Rites

Our Father

Priest: At the Savior’s command and formed by divine teaching,
we dare to say:

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.

The Nuptial Blessing

Priest: Let us humbly invoke by our prayers, dear brothers and
sisters, God’s blessing upon Arjay and Myra, that in his
kindness he may favor with his help those on whom he
has bestowed the Sacrament of Matrimony.

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Priest: All pray silently for a short while. Then the Priest
People: extends his hands over the couple and imparts the
Nuptial Blessing.

Holy Father, maker of the whole world, who
created man and woman in your own 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 Myra,. And
upon, Arjay, 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 adorn their family with
children and 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 circle of friends that surrounds
them, may they come to the kingdom of Heaven.
Through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

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Sign of Peace

Priest: Lord Jesus Christ, who said to your Apostles:
People:
Peace I leave you, my peace I give you; look not
on our sins, but on the faith of your church, and
graciously grant her peace and unity in
accordance with your will. Who live and reign
for ever and ever.

Amen.

Priest: The peace of the Lord be with you always.
People: And with your Spirit.
Priest: Let us offer each other the sign of peace.

The sign of peace is giving according to local customs.

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People: Lamb of God

Priest: The priest breaks the bread and place a fragment
People: into the chalice, symbol of the unity with the
Comm: Pope, while people sing the Lamb of God

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.

Communion

The priest holds the host over the paten and says:

Be hold the Lamb of God, behold him who takes
away the sins of the world. Blessed are those
called to the supper of the Lamb.

Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter
under my roof, but only say the word and my
soul shall be healed

Please, all be seated. Those who wish to receive
Holy Communion may come forward.

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First, the Priest gives communion to the couple possibly
on both kinds of Body and Blood. Then, he give Holy
Communion to the people.

Priest: The Body (and Blood) of Christ
Communicant:
Comm: Amen.
May I ask the cord and veil Sponsors to remove
Comm: the cord and the veil.
Please, all stand for the final prayer

Prayer after Communion

Priest: Let us pray, By the power of his sacrifice, O Lord,
People: accompany with you loving favor 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.

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Concluding Rites

Priest: Admonition
Priest:
Priest: Arjay and Myra, now that you have received the
Holy Sacrament of Matrimony, I admonish you to
remain faithful to one another.

Myra (Bride), love your husband and be a good
housewife; persevere in faith and love and
holiness.

Arjay (Groom), love your wife as Christ loves his
Church and live with her in the holy fear of the
Lord.

Priest: The Final Blessing
People:
Priest: The Lord be with you.

And with your Spirit.

Bow your heads and pray for Gods Blessing.
May God eternal Father keep you of one heart in
love for one another that the peace of Christ may
in you and abide always in your home.

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People: Amen.
Priest: May you be blessed with your children, have
solace in your friends and enjoy true peace with
People: everyone.
Priest: Amen.
May you be witnesses in the world to God’s
People: charity, so that the afflicted and needy who have
Priest: known your kindness may one day receive you
People: thankfully into eternal dwelling of God.
Amen.
Priest: And may almighty God bless you all, the Father,
People: and the Son,+ and the Holy Spirit.
Comm: Amen.

Dismissal

Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.
Thanks be to God.
Let us give the newly married couple a big round
of applause.

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Signing of the Marriage
Contract

Comm: Please all be seated, while the Bride, the Groom,
the Priest and the Sponsors sign the Marriage
Contract.

After signing the Marriage Contract on the altar,
the most awaited moment comes: the first kissing
of the bride by the groom.

Recessional

After picture taking, the Bride, the Groom and
their entourage march in procession out of the
church where they are greeted by a shower of
rice and confetti.

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