And so, in the presence of the Church, I ask you to state your intentions. 51
THE QUESTIONS BEFORE CONSENT Celebrant: Chuan Rong & Kerin, have you come here to enter into Marriage without coercion, freely and wholeheartedly? Chuan Rong: I have. Kerin: I have. 52
THE QUESTIONS BEFORE CONSENT Celebrant: Are you prepared, as you follow the path of Marriage, to love and honour each other for as long as you both shall live? Chuan Rong: I am. Kerin: I am. 53
THE QUESTIONS BEFORE CONSENT Celebrant: Are you prepared to accept children lovingly from God and to bring them up according to the law of Christ and his Church? 54 Kerin: I am.
THE QUESTIONS BEFORE CONSENT Celebrant: Are you prepared to accept children lovingly from God in the marriage and be responsible for their moral upbringing and education? 55 Chuan Rong: I am.
THE CONSENT Celebrant: Since it is your intention to enter into the covenant of Holy Matrimony, join your right hands, and declare your consent before God and his Church. 56
THE CONSENT Chuan Rong: I, Chuan Rong, take you, Kerin, 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 honour you all the days of my life. 57
THE CONSENT Kerin: I, Kerin, take you, Chuan Rong, 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 honour you all the days of my life. 58
THE RECEPTION OF THE CONSENT Celebrant: May the Lord in his kindness strengthen the consent you have declared before the Church, and graciously bring to fulfilment 59
his blessing within you. What God joins together, let no one put asunder. Let us bless the Lord. All:Thanks be toGod. 60
THE BLESSING & GIVING OF RINGS Celebrant: May the Lord bless ☩ these rings which you will give to each other as a sign of love and fidelity. Chuan Rong & Kerin: Amen. 61
THE BLESSING & GIVING OF RINGS Chuan Rong: Kerin, receive this ring as a sign of my love and fidelity. 62
THE BLESSING & GIVING OF RINGS Kerin: Chuan Rong, 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. 63
LIFTING OF THE VEIL 64
GENERAL INTERCESSIONS Please stand. Celebrant: Dear brothers and sisters, let us accompany this new family with our prayers 65
that the mutual love of this couple may grow daily and that God in his kindness will sustain all families throughout the world. 66
Commentator For Kerin and Chuan Rong, and for their well-being as a family, let us pray to the Lord. Response: Lord, hear our prayer. 67
Commentator For their relatives and friends, and for all who have assisted this couple, let us pray to the Lord. Response: Lord, hear our prayer. 68
For young people preparing to enter Marriage, and for all whom the Lord is calling to another state in life, let us pray to the Lord. Response: Lord, hear our prayer. 69
For all families throughout the world and for lasting peace among people, let us pray to the Lord. Response: Lord, hear our prayer. 70
For all members of our families who have passed from this world, and for all the departed, let us pray to the Lord. Response: Lord, hear our prayer. 71
For the Church, the holy people of God, and for unity among all Christians, let us pray to the Lord. Response: Lord, hear our prayer. 72
Celebrant: Lord Jesus, who are present in our midst, as Chuan Rong and Kerin seal their union accept our prayer and fill us with your Spirit. Who live and reign forever and ever. Response: Amen 73
LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST Please be seated. 74
Gather the people HYMN FOR PRESENTATION OF THE OFFERINGS 75
GATHER THE PEOPLE Chorus Gather the people! Enter the feast! All are invited, the greatest and least. The banquet is ready, now to be shared. Join in the heavenly feast that God has prepared. Gather the people (1/11)
Verse 1 Around this table we dine as kin, beloved family of God. We share the Body of Christ, the Lord. Here we become what we eat Gather the people (2/11)
Chorus Gather the people! Enter the feast! All are invited, the greatest and least. The banquet is ready, now to be shared. Join in the heavenly feast that God has prepared. Gather the people (3/11)
Verse 2 Around this table we tell great tales, the wondrous stories of grace. We hold the mem’ry of Christ, the Lord. So we become what we eat. Gather the people (4/11)
Chorus Gather the people! Enter the feast! All are invited, the greatest and least. The banquet is ready, now to be shared. Join in the heavenly feast that God has prepared. Gather the people (5/11)
Verse 3 Around this table God’s bounty falls on all who hunger and thirst. We drink the fullness of Christ, the Lord. So we become what we eat. Gather the people (6/11)
Chorus Gather the people! Enter the feast! All are invited, the greatest and least. The banquet is ready, now to be shared. Join in the heavenly feast that God has prepared. Gather the people (7/11)
Verse 4 Around this table God’s mercy Flows on hearts imprisoned by shame. We know compassion in Christ, the Lord. Let us become what we eat. Gather the people (8/11)
Chorus Gather the people! Enter the feast! All are invited, the greatest and least. The banquet is ready, now to be shared. Join in the heavenly feast that God has prepared. Gather the people (9/11)
Verse 5 Around this table new hope is born, the flame of faith in our hearts. We find our courage in Christ, the Lord. Till we become what we eat. Gather the people (10/11)
Chorus Gather the people! Enter the feast! All are invited, the greatest and least. The banquet is ready, now to be shared. Join in the heavenly feast that God has prepared. Gather the people (11/11)
INVITATION TO PRAYER Celebrant: 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. 87
INVITATION TO PRAYER Response: Blessed be God for ever. 88
INVITATION TO PRAYER Celebrant: 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. 89
INVITATION TO PRAYER Response: Blessed be God for ever. 90
INVITATION TO PRAYER Celebrant: Pray, brethren, that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God, the almighty Father. 91
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. 92
PRAYERS OVER THE OFFERINGS Celebrant: Receive we pray, O Lord, the offering made on the occasion of this sealing of the sacred bond of Marriage 93
PRAYERS OVER THE OFFERINGS Celebrant: and, just as your goodness is its origin, may your providence guide its course. Through Christ our Lord. Response:Amen. 94
EUCHARISTIC PRAYER II INTRODUCTORY DIALOGUE Celebrant:The Lord be with you. All: And with your spirit. 95
Celebrant: Lift up your hearts. All: We lift them up to the Lord. 96
Celebrant: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. All: It is right and just. 97
PREFACE 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. 98
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. 99
By your providence and grace, O Lord, you accomplish the wonder of this twofold design: that, while the birth of children brings beauty to the world, their rebirth in Baptism gives increase to the Church, through Christ our Lord. 100