David- Mapa Wedding Rites

Introductory Rites
PRIEST: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Spirit.
PEOPLE: Amen.
PRIEST: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God,
and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
PEOPLE: And with your Spirit.
PRIEST: Dear brothers and sisters, we are gathered to celebrate the
Holy Eucharist and to witness the Sacrament of Marriage
between Jonathan and Ma. Lourdes. As their Christian
Family, we remind them that they are called to life of
holiness and fidelity as husband and wife. Let us rejoice
with them and ask Gods blessing for them and their
future children.

Penitential Rite
PRIEST: Brethren, let us acknowledge our sins, and so prepare
ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.
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.

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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.

Opening Prayer
PRIEST: Father, you have made the bond of marriage a holy
mystery, a symbol of Christs love for His Church. Hear
our prayers for Jonathan and Ma. Lourdes. With faith in
You and in each other, they pledge their love today. May
their lives always bear witness to the reality of that love.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who
lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God,
for ever and ever.
PEOPLE: Amen.
COMMENTATOR: Please, be seated for the Readings.

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Liturgy of the Word

First Reading
(Ephesians 5:21-33)

READER: A reading from the Letter of St. Paul to the Ephesians.

Wives and husbands, be subordinate to one another out of reverence
for Christ. Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as to the Lord,
for the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the
Church, as He himself is the Savior of the Church, His body. So
wives must submit themselves completely to their husbands just as
the Church submits itself to Christ. Husbands love your wives just as
Christ loved the Church and gave His life for it. He did this to
dedicate the church to God by His Word, after making it clean by
washing it in water, in order to present the church to Himself in all its
beauty; pure, faultless, without spot or wrinkle or any other
imperfection.
Husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves
his wife loves himself. For no one hates his own flesh but rather
nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the Church, because we
are members of His body.
As the scripture said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and
mother, and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one.
This is a great mystery in reference to Christ and the Church. But it
also applies to you: every husband must love his wife as himself, and
every wife must respect her husband.
READER: The Word of the Lord.
PEOPLE: Thanks be to God.

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Responsorial Psalm

(Psalms 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9)

READER:
PEOPLE:

Let our response be: I will bless the Lord at all times.
I will bless the Lord at all times.

READER:

I will bless the Lord at all times:

his praise shall ever be in my mouth.
Let my soul glory in the Lord;
the lowly will hear me and be glad.
I will bless the Lord at all times.

PEOPLE:
READER:
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PEOPLE:
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PEOPLE:

I sought the Lord and he answered me

and delivered me from all my fears.
I will bless the Lord at all times.
Look to him that you may be radiant with joy,
and your faces may not blush with shame.
When the afflicted man called out,
the Lord heard, and from all his distress he saved him.
I will bless the Lord at all times.
The angel of the Lord
encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
Taste and see how good the Lord is;
happy the man who takes refuge in Him.
I will bless the Lord at all times.

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Second Reading

(1 Corinthians 12: 31-13:8)

READER:

A reading from the First Letter of St. Paul to

the Corinthians.

Set your hearts on greater gifts. Now I will show you the way, which
surpasses all the other. If I speak with human tongues and angelic as
well, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong, a clanging cymbal. If I
have the gift of prophecy and, with full knowledge, comprehend all
mysteries. If I have faith great enough to move mountains, but have
not love, I am nothing. If I give everything I have to feed the poor and
hand over my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient; love is kind. Love is not jealous, it does not put on
airs, it is not snobbish. Love is never rude, it is not self-seeking, it is
not prone to anger; neither does it brood over injuries. Love does not
rejoice in what is wrong but rejoices with the truth. There is no limit
to loves forbearance, to its trust, its hope, its power to endure.
Love never fails.
READER:
PEOPLE:

The Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

COMMENTATOR: Let us all stand for the Alleluia and the Holy
Gospel.

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Gospel Acclamation
CHOIR:

Alleluia, Alleluia.
Your word, O Lord, is truth; consecrate us in
the truth.
Alleluia, Alleluia.

Gospel

(John 15:9-12)
PRIEST:
PEOPLE:

The Lord be with you.

And with your Spirit.

PRIEST:
PEOPLE:

A reading from the holy Gospel according to

St. John.
Glory to you, O Lord.

PRIEST:

Jesus said to his disciples:

As the father has loved me, so I have loved you. Live on in my love.
You will live in My Love if you keep my commandments, even as I
have kept my fathers commandments, and live in his love. All this I
tell you that my joy may be yours and your joy may be complete.
This is my commandment: Love one another as I have loved you.
PRIEST:
PEOPLE:

The Gospel of the Lord.

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

COMMENTATOR: Please, all be seated for the Homily.

Homily
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Rite of Marriage
COMMENTATOR: All please remain seated.
Jonathan and Ma. Lourdes, please stand for the
Rite of Marriage. May we request the Parents
of the Bride and the Groom and the Principal
Sponsors to come up to the altar and stand as
witnesses beside Jonathan and Ma. Lourdes.

Allocution
PRIEST:

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Dearly beloved Jonathan and Ma. Lourdes, 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, 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 questions:

PRIEST:

Ma. Lourdes, did you come here of your own

free will to bind yourself forever in the love
and service of your husband?
Yes, Father.

MARIA:
PRIEST:
JON:

Jonathan, 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?
JON AND MARIA: Yes, Father.

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Exchange of Consent
PRIEST:

Jonathan and Ma. Lourdes, since you wish to

contract Holy Matrimony, please join your
right hands and express your intention before
God and his Church.

PRIEST:
MARIA:

Ma. Lourdes, do you take Jonathan here

present, for your lawful husband, according to
the rite of our Holy Mother, the Church?
Yes, I do.

PRIEST:
MARIA:

Do you give yourself to him as his wife?

Yes, I do.

PRIEST:
MARIA:

Do you accept him as your lawful husband?

Yes, I do.

PRIEST:
JON:

Jonathan, do you take Ma. Lourdes here

present, for your lawful wife, according to the
rite of our Holy Mother, the Church?
Yes, I do.

PRIEST:
JON:

Do you give yourself to her as her husband?

Yes, I do.

PRIEST:
JON:

Do you accept her as your lawful wife?

Yes, I do.

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Personal Vows
Now Groom and Bride will recite their personal vows in their own words.
Afterwards, the priest invites the couple to pray together as follows:
PRIEST:
Now, please recite this prayer:
JON AND MARIA: 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:

PEOPLE:

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And I, by the authority of the Church, calling

on all those 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.

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Blessing of the Rings and the Arrhae

PRIEST:
PEOPLE:
PRIEST:

PEOPLE:
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PEOPLE:

Jonathan and Ma. Lourdes we shall now bless

your rings and arrhae.
Our help is in the name of the Lord
Who made heaven and earth.
Let us pray. Bless, O Lord, these rings, so that
your servants, Jonathan and Ma. Lourdes, who
wear them, may live in mutual love and in
unbroken loyalty. Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Let us pray. Bless, O Lord, your servants,
Jonathan and Ma. Lourdes with sufficiency of
material possessions, which these arrhae
symbolize, so that they may use them to attain
eternal life. We ask this through Christ our
Lord.
Amen.

(The priest sprinkles the rings and arrhae with holy water.)
PRIEST:

Now give these rings to each other.

JON:

Ma. Lourdes, wear 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.
Jonathan, wear 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.

MARIA:

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JON:

MARIA:

Ma. Lourdes, I give you these arrhae as a pledge

of my dedication to your welfare. In the name
of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Spirit.
And I accept them.

Blessing and Giving of the Bible

PRIEST:

O God, bless this Bible that contains your Holy

Words so that all who read it, especially
Jonathan and Ma. Lourdes, may know the truth
and live by it. In the name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
JON AND MARIA: Amen.
PRIEST:

Jonathan and Ma. Lourdes, as husband and

wife who will start a new life together. Take
this Holy Bible, which is the Word of God and
make it your guide and inspiration in life.
JON AND MARIA: As we start our life together/ we accept Gods
word, with humility and fervent prayer/ that
God may reign in our married life,/ in the
family we will raise/ and in the home we will
build together. Amen.
(Priest may introduce the newly-wedded couple to the community.)

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Prayers of the Faithful

PRIEST:

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As we celebrate the feast of the Holy Child, let

us give thanks to the Father who has made us
his beloved children in Christ and given us the
Spirit of wisdom and understanding. Let us
remember in a special way all the children of
the world as we pray:
Listen to the prayers of your children, Lord.
For our Holy Father, bishops, and church
leaders: May they continue to proclaim, by
word and example, that Gods kingdom belongs
to children, to the poor, and the humble. We
pray:
Listen to the prayers of your children, Lord.
For children who beg, scavenge for food, or are
forced into labor: May our civil leaders work to
give them hope for a better tomorrow. We
pray:
Listen to the prayers of your children, Lord.
For children of broken homes and those who
suffer because of neglectful and uncaring
parents: May adults take their responsibility
toward them seriously, love and care for them,
and show them the beauty of life. We pray:
Listen to the prayers of your children, Lord.
For adults: May they never lose the spirit of a
child and so live with one another in
friendship, freedom, and openness. We pray:
Listen to the prayers of your children, Lord.

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For all our families: May we take the challenge

to face the problems connected with the
promotion of the family and marriage so that
our children may grow up in a healthy, happy,
and religious environment. We pray:
Listen to the prayers of your children, Lord.
For all those who consecrate their lives to God:
May they always listen to Christ and feel a
deep need for conversion and holiness. We
pray:
Listen to the prayers of your children, Lord.
For Jonathan and Ma. Lourdes united today in
Gods love, founding a new family in our
Christian community.
May they become
Gods faithful stewards and collaborators of
God in rearing their future children. We pray:
Listen to the prayers of your children, Lord.
For the young people who will embrace the
vocation of married life, that they may learn
from life and experiences of others, the beauty
of love that comes from generosity. We pray:
Listen to the prayers of your children, Lord.
Father, hear the petitions of your children.
Give us the heart of a child so that we may
welcome Gods kingdom among us and receive
the reward promised to the humble.
We ask you this through Christ your Son and
our Lord.
Amen.

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COMMENTATOR: Please, be seated for the Liturgy of the

Eucharist. Jonathan and Maria please kneel.

Liturgy of the Eucharist

Rite of the Candle, the Veil and the Cord
COMMENTATOR: May we request the Candle Sponsors to light
the nuptial candles. We call on the Veil
Sponsors to put on the bridal veil. The Cord
Sponsors may now put on the bridal cord.

Offertory Procession

(Offerors may now bring their gifts to the altar.)

Preparation of the Gifts

COMMENTATOR: Please all stand. (right after the washing of hands)
PRIEST:
PEOPLE:

Pray, brethren, 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.

Prayer Over the Gifts

PRIEST:

PEOPLE:

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Lord, accept the gifts we offer You on this

happy day. In Your fatherly love, watch and
protect Jonathan and Ma. Lourdes whom You
have united in marriage. We ask this through
Christ our Lord.
Amen.

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Preface
PRIEST: The Lord be with you.
PEOPLE: And with your Spirit.
PRIEST: Lift up your hearts.
PEOPLE: We lift them up to the Lord.
PRIEST: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
PEOPLE: 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 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.
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.
Through him, with the Angels and all the Saints,
we sing the hymn of your praise,
as without end we acclaim:

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ALL:

Holy, 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.

COMMENTATOR: Please all kneel.

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 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, 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.

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COMMENTATOR: Please all stand.

PRIEST: The mystery of faith.
PEOPLE: We proclaim your Death, O Lord, and profess your
Resurrection until you come again.
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 be 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
and Antonio, our Bishop and all the clergy.
Remember also our brothers and sisters
who have fallen asleep in the hope of 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, and all the Saints
who have pleased you throughout the ages,
we may merit to be coheirs to eternal life,
and may praise and glorify you
through your Son, Jesus Christ.

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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, for ever and ever.
PEOPLE: Amen.

Communion Rite
PRIEST: At the Saviors command and formed by divine teaching,
we dare to say:
ALL:

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, Gods blessing upon Jonathan and Ma. Lourdes,
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: 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, Ma. Lourdes, and upon Jonathan, 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 the circle of friends
that surrounds them, may they come to the Kingdom of
Heaven. Through Christ our Lord.
PEOPLE: Amen.

Sign of Peace
PRIEST: The peace of the Lord be with you always.
PEOPLE: And with your Spirit.
PRIEST:

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Let us offer each other the sign of peace.

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Lamb of God
PEOPLE:

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
PRIEST:

This is the Lamb of God who takes away the

sins of the world. Happy are those who are
called to His supper.
Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter
under my roof, but only say the word and my
soul shall be healed.

PEOPLE:

Removal of the Bridal Cord and Veil

COMMENTATOR: (while priest cleans vessels) We call on the Cord
Sponsors to please remove the Bridal Cord,
(pause) followed by the Veil Sponsors to
remove the Bridal Veil. Please all stand.
Jonathan and Ma. Lourdes, likewise, please
stand.

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Prayer After Communion

PRIEST:

PEOPLE:

Let us pray. By the power of this sacrifice, O

Lord, accompany with your 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.

Concluding Rites
Admonition
PRIEST:

Jonathan and Ma. Lourdes, now that you have

received the Holy Sacrament of Matrimony, I
admonish you to remain faithful to one
another.
Ma. Lourdes, love your husband and be a good
housewife; persevere in faith, love and holiness.
Jonathan, love your wife as Christ loves his
Church and live with her in the holy fear of the
Lord.

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The Final Blessing

PRIEST:
PEOPLE:

The Lord be with you.

And with your Spirit.

PRIEST:

Bow your heads and pray for Gods blessing.

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.
Amen.

PEOPLE:
PRIEST:
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PEOPLE:
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PRIEST:
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May you be blessed with your children, have

solace in your friends and enjoy true peace with
everyone.
Amen.
May you be witnesses in the world to Gods
charity, so that the afflicted and needy who
have known your kindness may one day
receive you thankfully into the eternal dwelling
of God.
Amen.
And may Almighty God bless you all, the
Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Amen.

Dismissal

Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.

Thanks be to God.

COMMENTATOR: Please be seated for the Pictorial and signing of

Contract.

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Bride and Groom with Officiating Priest

Bride and Groom
Bride and Groom with Daughter/ Little Bride
Bride and Groom with Brides Parents
Bride and Groom with Brides Immediate Family
Bride and Groom with Brides Relatives
Bride and Groom with Both Parents
Bride and Groom with Grooms Parents
Bride and Groom with Grooms Immediate Family
Bride and Groom with Grooms Relatives
Bride and Groom with Principal Sponsors
Bride and Groom with the Best Man, Maid of Honor and Man of
Honor
Bride and Groom with Secondary Sponsors
Bride and Groom with Bridesmaids and Groomsmen
Bride and Groom with Bearers and Flower Girls
Bride and Groom with the Whole Entourage
Bride and Groom with Friends

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