Introduction

Commentator: Dear family, relatives and friends, today,

we are gathered here to witness the promise of
love that unites MARK RONALD and MA.
ANGELA Man and woman becoming one,
together and forever. There is a moment in each of
our life when life itself gains a richer meaning
because it is shared with love.

For MARK RONALD and MA. ANGELA, this

moment has come. Through this joyous feast of
love which we are about to celebrate, let us, as
witnesses and as a whole Christian community,
pray for MARK RONALD and MA. ANGELA
that they may be filled with God’s abundant graces
as they start their new life together.

Please stand for the processional march.

Bridal Processional March

Introductory Rites
G reet ings
Priest: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of
the Holy Spirit.

All: 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
All: And with your Spirit.

Priest: God is love and has, in some mysterious way,

drawn you, MARK RONALD and MA.
ANGELA, together in love. But He leaves you
free to make that love grow or to let it wither and
die. The Lord will help you, MARK RONALD
and MA. ANGELA, to forge a future for your
love, if you do your share, when you stand to the
commitment to love and honor one another in good
times and bad, in poverty and plenty, in sickness
and in health, for better and for worse, in that
covenant which you are about to seal. Insert it into
that other covenant which we celebrate in each
celebration of the Mass.

The Penitential Rite is omitted. The celebrant continues

with the Gloria.

Gloria
(During Advent and Lent “Glory to God” is not said unless
specified in the Ordo that it is said in Solemnities within these
seasons.)

All: 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,
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.

Co llect
Priest: Let us pray.
Be attentive to our prayers, O Lord, and in your
kindness pour out your grace on these your
servants MARK RONALD and MA. ANGELA,
that, coming together before your altar, they may
be confirmed in love for one another. Through our
Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns
with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God,
forever and ever.

All: Amen.

Liturgy of the Word

F irst R ead ing (Sg 2:8-10, 14, 16a; 8:6-7a)

Lector: A reading from the Song of Songs

Hark! My lover – here he comes springing across the

mountains, leaping across the hills. My lover is like a
gazelle or a young stag.
 Here he stands behind our wall, gazing through the
windows, peering through the lattices.
My lover speaks to me: he says to me:
“Arise, my beloved, my dove, my beautiful one, and
come!
“O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the secret
recesses of the cliff;
Let me see you, let me hear your voice, for your voice
is sweet, and you are lovely.”
My love belongs to me and I to him.
He says to me: “Set me as a seal on your heart, as a
seal on your arm;
For stern as death is love, relentless as the nether world
is devotion; its flames are a blazing fire. Deep waters
cannot quench love, nor floods sweep it away.”

The Word of the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God.

R es pons oria l Psa lm (Psalm 33: 12,18,20-21,22)

The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
The people he has chosen for his own inheritance.
But see, the eyes of the Lord are upon those who
fear him, upon those who hope for his kindness.
(Response)

Our soul waits for the Lord,

Who is our help and shield,
 For in him our hearts rejoice;
In his holy name we trust. (Response)

May your kindness, O Lord, be upon us

Who have put our hope we trust. (Response)

S econd Read ing (1Cor. 12:31-13:8a)

Lector: A reading from the first Letter of St. Paul to the

Corinthians
Brothers and sisters:
Strive eagerly for the greatest spiritual gifts. But I
shall show you a still more excellent way.
If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not
have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing
cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and
comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I
have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not
have love, I am nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, is not

pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does
not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered,
it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice
over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all
things, endures all things. Love never fails.

The Word of the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God.

A llelu ia A cclamat io n

Alleluia, alleluia.
Whoever remains in love, remains in God and God
in him.
Alleluia, alleluia.

Go sp el (Jn 15:9-12)

Priest: The Lord be with you.

All: And with your Spirit.

Priest: A reading from the holy Gospel according

to John

Jesus said to his disciples: “As the Father loves

me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you
keep my commandments, you will remain in my
love, just as I have kept my Father’s
commandments and remain in his love. I have told
you this so that my joy might be in you and your
joy might be complete. This is my commandment:
love one another as I love you.”

The Gospel of the Lord.

All: Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ.

Commentator: Please be seated for the homily.

Ho mily
 Rite of Marriage
(The couple stands. The coin and ring bearer will stand at the
right side of the celebrant.)

ALLOCUTION

Priest: Dearly beloved, MARK RONALD and MA.

ANGELA, 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 may
pour His abundant blessings on your love and help
you to carry out the duties of the married state.

Addressing the community:

Priest: 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: MARK RONALD and MA. ANGELA, May I
now ask you to answer truthfully the following
questions:

MA. ANGELA, did you come here of your own

free will to bind yourself forever in the love and
service of your husband?

Bride: Yes, Father.

Priest: MARK RONALD, did you come here of your

own free will to bind yourself forever in the love
and service of your wife?
Groom: Yes, Father.

Priest: Are you both ready to raise as good Christians the

children whom God will give you?

MARK RONALD and MA. ANGELA: Yes, Father.

EXCHANGE OF CONSENT
Priest: MARK RONALD and MA. ANGELA, since
you wish to contract Holy Matrimony, please join
your right hands and express your intention before
God and His Church.
They join their right hands.
Priest: MA. ANGELA, do you take MARK RONALD,
here present, for your lawful husband according to
the rite of our holy Mother, the Church?

Bride: Yes, I do.

Priest: Do you give yourself to him as his wife?

Bride: Yes, I do.
Priest: Do you accept him as your lawful husband?
Bride: Yes, I do.
Priest: MARK RONALD, do you take MA. ANGELA,
here present, for your lawful wife according to the
rite of our holy Mother, the Church?
Groom: Yes, I do.
Priest: Do you give yourself to her as her husband?
Groom: Yes, I do.
Priest: Do you accept her as your lawful wife?
Groom: Yes, I do.
Priest: Now please say together.
MARK RONALD and MA. ANGELA: 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, calling on
all those present here as witnesses, confirm and
bless the bond of the marriage which you have
contracted. In the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
All: Amen.

BLESSING OF THE ARRHAE AND RINGS

Priest: MARK RONALD and MA. ANGELA we shall
now bless your arrhae and rings.
Our help is in the name of the Lord.
All: Who made heaven and earth.
Priest: Let us pray.
Bless  O Lord, Your servants MARK RONALD
and MA. ANGELA with sufficiency of material
 possessions which these arrhae symbolize so that
they may use them to attain eternal life. Through
Christ our Lord.

All: Amen.
Priest: Bless  O Lord, these rings so that your servants
MARK RONALD and MA. ANGELA, who
wear them may ever live in mutual love and in
unbroken loyalty. Through Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.

GIVING OF THE WEDDING RINGS AND THE

ARRHAE

Priest: Now give these rings to one another:

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

Bride: MARK RONALD, wear this ring as a sign of my

love and loyalty. In the name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Groom: MA. ANGELA, 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.
Bride: And, I accept them.
PRONOUNCEMENT

Priest:
My dear brothers and sisters as gesture of our
acceptance of MARK RONALD and MA.
ANGELA as a new couple in the Christian
community let us give them a round of applause.
Commentator: Please all stand for the Prayer of the
Faithful.

P RAYER S O F TH E FA ITHFU L
Priest: Heavenly Father we have just witnessed the
covenant of marriage between MARK RONALD
and MA. ANGELA.
We know our brokenness and our needs, none of
which can be healed without your divine power
and love. And so, confident with your care and
concern, we pray:
Lord, keep us in your love.

1. For your people, your Church, that she may always be the
source of light and strength for the married couples in
their midst, let us pray to the Lord.

2. For MARK RONALD and MA. ANGELA, that they

may constantly seek for God’s love, peace and guidance
and make Him the center of their family life, let us pray
to the Lord.

3. May MARK RONALD and MA. ANGELA find

strength in God and in each other and brace the crosses
 that might come their way and may they have the humble
heart to accept their triumphs and offer it to God, let us
pray to the Lord.

4. That the beauty of this celebration and love we have

witnessed today, keep us all faithful in Christ’s love and
make us strive to seek for His mercy and faithfulness, let
us pray to the Lord.

Priest: Heavenly Father, the greatest of your kingdom is

the law of love. Unite MARK RONALD and
MA. ANGELA in their love for each other. We
ask this through Christ our Lord.

All: Amen.

Liturgy of the Eucharist

PRESENTATION OF THE GIFTS

Any appropriate song for the Presentation of the Gifts is

sung. The couple receives the offerings and gives them to
the priest. The couple remains standing until they kneel in
singing the Sanctus. The Lighting of Candles and the
Laying of Veil and Cord is made simultaneously during the
singing of the Sanctus.

PREPARATION OF THE ALTAR AND GIFTS

Priest: Pray, brothers and sisters, that my sacrifice and

yours may be acceptable to God, the almighty
Father.
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.

PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS

Priest: Receive in your kindness, Lord, the offerings we

bring in gladness before you, and in your fatherly
love watch over those you have joined in a
sacramental covenant. Through Christ our Lord.

All: Amen.

PREFACE

Priest: The Lord be with you.

All: And with your Spirit.

Priest: Lift up your hearts.

All: We lift them up to the Lord.

Priest: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

All: 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 every living God,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
 For in Him you have made a new covenant with
your people, so that, as you have redeemed man
and woman by the mystery of Christ Death and
Resurrection, so in Christ you might make them
partakers of divine nature and joint heirs with him
of heavenly glory.

In the union of husband and wife you give a sign

of Christ’s loving gift of grace, so that the
Sacrament we celebrate might draw us back more
deeply into the wondrous design of your love.

And so, with all the Angels and all the Saints, we
praise you, and without end we acclaim:

Sanctus (to be sung)

During the singing of the Sanctus, the couple kneels and the
Lighting of Candles and the Laying of Veil and Cord is
made simultaneously.

Eucharistic Prayer III

Priest:
You are indeed Holy, O Lord,
and all you have created rightly gives you praise,
for through your Son our Lord Jesus Christ,
by the power and working of the Holy Spirit,
you give life to all things and make them holy,
and you never cease to gather a people to yourself,
so that from the rising of the sun to its setting
a pure sacrifice may be offered to your name.
Therefore, O Lord, we humbly implore you:
by the same Spirit graciously make holy
these gifts we have brought to you for consecration,
that they may become the Body and  Blood
of your Son our Lord Jesus Christ,
at whose command we celebrate these mysteries.

For on the night he was betrayed

he himself took bread,
and, giving you thanks, he said the blessing,
broke the bread 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, giving you thanks, he said the blessing,
and gave the chalice 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.
The mystery of faith.
All: We proclaim your Death, O Lord,
and profess your Resurrection
until you come again.
Priest:

Therefore, O Lord,
as we celebrate the memorial
of the saving Passion of your Son,
his wondrous Resurrection
and Ascension into heaven,
and as we look forward to his second coming,
we offer you in thanksgiving
this holy and living sacrifice.

Look, we pray,
upon the oblation of your Church
and, recognizing the sacrificial Victim
by whose death you willed to reconcile us to
yourself,
grant that we,
who are nourished by the Body and Blood of your
Son
and filled with his Holy Spirit,
may become one body, one spirit in Christ.

May he make of us
an eternal offering to you,
so that we may obtain an inheritance with your elect,
especially with the most Blessed Virgin Mary,
Mother of God,
with blessed Joseph, her Spouse,
with your blessed Apostles and glorious Martyrs
(with Saint N. : the Saint of the day or Patron Saint)
and with all the Saints,
on whose constant intercession in your presence
we rely for unfailing help.

May this Sacrifice of our reconciliation,

we pray, O Lord,
advance the peace and salvation of all the world.
Be pleased to confirm in faith and charity
your pilgrim Church on earth,
with your servant Francis our Pope
and Patricio our Bishop,
the Order of Bishops, all the clergy,
and the entire people you have gained for your own.

Listen graciously to the prayers of this family,

whom you have summoned before you:

Strengthen, we pray, in the grace of Marriage

MARK RONALD and MA. ANGELA,
whom you have brought happily to their wedding
day,
that under your protection
they may always be faithful in their lives
to the covenant they have sealed in your presence.
in your compassion, O merciful Father,
gather to yourself all your children
scattered throughout the world.

To our departed brothers and sisters

and to all who were pleasing to you
at their passing from this life,
give kind admittance to your kingdom.
There we hope to enjoy for ever
 the fullness of your glory
through Christ our Lord,
through whom you bestow on the world all that is
good.

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.

All: (to be sung) Amen

COMMUNION RITE

Priest: At the Savior’s command and formed by divine

teaching, we dare to say:

OUR FATHER (to be sung)

NUPTIAL BLESSING

Priest: Let us pray to the Lord for this bride and groom,
who come to the altar as they begin their married
life, that partaking of the Body and Blood of Christ
they may always be bound together by love for
one another.
Then the Priest, with hands extend over the bride and
the bride groom, continues:

Holy Father, who formed man in your own image,

male and female you created them, so that as
husband and wife, united in body and heart, they
might fulfill their calling in the world;
O God, who, to reveal the great design you formed
in your love, willed that the love of spouses for
each other should foreshadow the covenant you
graciously made with your people, so that, by
fulfillment of the sacramental sign, the mystical
marriage of Christ with his Church might become
manifest in the union of husband and wife among
your faithful;
Graciously stretch out your right hand over these
servants MARK RONALD and MA. ANGELA,
we pray, and pour into their hearts the power of
the Holy Spirit.
Grant, O Lord, that, as they enter upon this
sacramental union, they may share with one
another the gifts of your love and, by being for
each other a sign of your presence, become one
heart and one mind.
May they also sustain, O Lord, by their deeds the
home they are forming and prepare their children
to become members of your heavenly household
by raising them in the way of the Gospel.
Graciously crown with your blessings your
daughter MA. ANGELA, so that, by being a good
wife and mother, she may bring warmth to her
home with a love that is pure and adorn it with
welcoming graciousness. Bestow a heavenly
blessing also, O Lord, on MARK RONALD, your
servant that he may be a worthy, good and faithful
husband and a provident father.
 Grant, holy Father, that, desiring to approach your
table as a couple joined in Marriage in your
presence, they may one day have the joy of taking
part in your great banquet in heaven. Through
Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.
SIGN OF PEACE

Priest: The peace of the Lord be with you always.

All: And with your spirit.
Priest: Let us offer each other the sign of peace.

LAMB OF GOD (to be sung)

Priest: Behold the Lamb of God, behold Him who takes
away the sins of the world. Blessed are those
called to the supper of the Lamb.
All: Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under
my roof but only say the word and my soul shall
be healed.

COMMUNION RITE
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
Priest: Having been made partakers at your table, we
pray, O Lord, that those who are united by the
Sacrament of Marriage may always hold fast to
you and proclaim your name to the world.
Through Christ our Lord.

All: Amen.
After the Prayer after Communion, the veil and the cord are
removed

REMOVAL OF THE VEIL AND CORD

Commentator: May we request the veil and cord
sponsors to remove the veil and the cord from the
newly married couple.

Concluding Rite
ADMONITION
Priest: MARK RONALD and MA. ANGELA, now that
you have received the holy sacrament of
Matrimony, I admonish you to remain faithful to
one another.
MA. ANGELA, love your husband MARK
RONALD and be a good housewife; persevere in
faith and love and holiness.

MARK RONALD, love your wife MA.

ANGELA. as Christ loves His Church and live
with her in the holy fear of the Lord.

SOLEMN BLESSING
Priest: The Lord be with you.

All: And with your spirit.

Priest: May God the all-power Father grant you his joy
and bless you in your children.

All: Amen.
Priest: May the Only Begotten Son of God stand by you
with compassion in good times and in bad.
All: Amen.

Priest: May the Holy Spirit of God always pour forth his
love into your hearts.

All: Amen.

F i n al Bl e s s i n g
Priest: And may almighty God, bless you all of you, who
are gathered here, the Father, and the Son,  and
the Holy Spirit.

All: Amen.

Priest: Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.

All: Thanks be to God.

Signing of the marriage contract and presentation

of the newlywed couple
Priest: My dear faithful of God, let us welcome Mr. and
Mrs. MARK RONALD and MA. ANGELA, you
may now kiss your bride.

PICTORIAL

RECESSIONAL
ORDER OF PICTORIAL

 Couple with the priest

 Couple with Parents of the Bride
 Couple with Parents of the Groom
 Couple with Both Parents
 Couple with Female Principal Sponsors
 Couple with Both Female & Male Principal Sponsors
 Couple with Male Principal Sponsors
 Couple with Secondary Sponsors
 Couple with Best Man and Maid of Honor
 Couple with Best Man, Maid of Honor &
 Couple with the whole Bridal Entourage
 Couple with Immediate Family of the Bride
 Couple with Relatives of the Bride
 Couple with Immediate Family of the Groom
 Couple with Relatives of the Groom
 Couple with Friends of the Bride
 Couple with Friends of the Groom
 Couple with Liturgical Ministers