INTRODUCTORY RITES

Commentator: Good morning brothers and sisters. Love has been defined in many different
ways. Today, we celebrate the fullness of love in the person of ROQUE and BABA, who will
begin their new life together as husband and wife. As they embrace their married life, we ask
the Lord to unite their hearts in unselfish harmony, so that mindful of the needs and wishes of
each other, they can live a devoted life serving God, even as they care for the children that they
will be blessed with. By God’s grace, may they accomplish His will in all things as they remain
faithful to one another all the days of their lives.

Please all rise to welcome the entourage as we witness the covenant of love which ROQUE and
BABA are about to seal.

The bridal procession begins…

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 fellowship of the Holy
Spirit, be with you all.

People: And also with you.

Priest: Dear brothers and sisters, we are gathered to celebrate the Holy Eucharist and to
witness the Sacrament of Marriage between ROQUE and BABA. 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 RITE

Priest: My brothers and sisters, to prepare ourselves to celebrate these sacred mysteries, let us
call to mind our sins.

Priest & People: I confess to Almighty God, and to you my brothers and sisters, that I have
sinned through my own fault, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done, and in what
I have failed to do; and I ask the 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.

(Delete the “Gloria” part. No “Gloria” on non-Sunday and non-Solemnity Masses)

OPENING PRAYER

Priest: Father you have made the bond of marriage a holy mystery, a symbol of Christ’s love for
his Church. Hear our prayers for ROQUE and BABA. 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 Liturgy of the Word.

LITURGY OF THE WORD

FIRST READING (Genesis 2:18-24)

Reader: 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; bot non proved to be the suitable partner for the man.

So the Lord God cast a deep sleep on the man, and while he was asleep, he tok one of his ribs
and closed up its place with flesh. The Lord God built up into a woman the rib that he had taken
from the man. When he brought her to the man, 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 leave his father and mother and clings to his wife and the two of them
become one body.
Reader: The Word of the Lord

People: Thanks be to God.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (Psalm 128)

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

People: Happy are those who fear the Lord.

Reader: Happy are you who fear the Lord,

who walk in his ways!
For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork;
happy shall you be, and favored.

People: Happy are those who fear the Lord

Reader: Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine

in the recess of your home;
Your children like olive plants
around your table.

People: Happy are those who fear the Lord.

Reader: Behold, thus is 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.

People: Happy are those who fear the Lord.

SECOND READING (1 Corinthians 13:1-13)

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a
clanging cymbal. And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I
have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away
everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no
benefit.

Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up. It is not
rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful. It is not glad about injustice, but
rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they
will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside. For we know in part, and we prophesy in
part, but when what is perfect comes, the partial will be set aside.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I
became an adult, I set aside childish ways. For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we
will see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully
known. And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Reader: The Word of the Lord

People: Thanks be to God.

GOSPEL (Matthew 19:3-6)

Priest: The Lord be with you.

People: And also with you.

Priest: A reading from the holy gospel according to Matthew.

People: Glory to you, O Lord.

Priest: 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.”

Priest: The Gospel of the Lord.

People: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

Commentator: Please, all be seated and listed to the homily

HOMILY

RITE OF MARRIAGE

Commentator: Please remain seated for the marriage rites. ROQUE and BABA, please stand
up. May we now ask the candle sponsors to please come forward and light the wedding
candles.

These candles symbolize God’s special presence in this holy moment and for eternity. As we
light these candles, we pray that ROQUE and BABA will be filled with light and warmth, wisdom
and joy, now and forever.

May we also request the parents of the bride and the groom, and also the principal sponsors to
please stand up.

Allocution

Priest: Dearly beloved ROQUE and BABA, you stand before God and His Church to day in
solemn reaffirmation of your love for each other. Christ abundantly blesses this love. Through
this Holy Sacrament of Matrimony, God enriches and strangthens you so that you may carry out
the duties of marriage in and lasting fidelity. Let the love that you patiently nurtured be the
foundation of your lifetime commitment.

And you (addressing the congregation) dear brothers and sisters, I ask you to help them with
your prayers and accept them as a new couple in our Christian community.

Scrutiny

Priest: I now ask you who are present here today to join ROQUE and BABA in prayer as they,
with courage and confidence in God’s unfailing grace and love, make pledge of love and fidelity
to one another.

In the presence of the Church, I ask you, ROQUE and BABA, to state your intentions.

Priest: BABA, did you come here of your own free will to bind yourself for ever in the love and
service of your husband?

Bride: Yes, Father.

Priest: ROQUE, did you come here of your own free will to bind yourself for ever in the love and
service of your wife?

Groom: Yes, Father.

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

Bride & Groom: Yes, Father.

Exchange of Consent

Priest: ROQUE and BABA, since you have come here today wanting to be one and united in
the sacrament of Holy Matrimony, please join your right hands and express your intentions and
promises to love each others before God and His Church.

Priest: BABA, do you take ROQUE here present, for your lawful husband, according to the rite
of our Holy Mother, the Church?

BABA: Yes, I do.

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

BABA: Yes, I do.

Priest: Do you accept him as your lawful husband?

BABA: Yes, I do.

Priest: ROQUE, do you take BABA here present, for your lawful wife, according to the rite of
our Holy Mother, the Church?

ROQUE: Yes, I do.

Priest: Do you give yourself to her as her husband?

ROQUE: Yes, I do.

Priest: Do you accept her as you lawful wife?

ROQUE: Yes, I do.

Priest: ROQUE and BABA, please join hands and pronounce your vows to each other through
these words:

ROQUE & BABA: 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: ROQUE and BABA, you have declared your consent before God and His Church. May
the Lord, in His goodness, strengthen your consent and fill you both with His blessings.

What God has joined, men must not divide.

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.

People: Amen.

BLESSING OF THE RINGS AND THE ARRHAE

Commentator: May we request the bearers of the matrimonial rings, arrahe and Bible to please
ocme forward.

Priest: ROQUE and BABA, I shall now bless your rings and arrhae, symbol of God’s
faithfulness, generosity and love. Our help is in the name of the Lord.

People: Who made heaven and earth.

Priest: Let us pray. Bless, + O Lord, these rings, so that your children ROQUE and BABA, who
will wear them, may ever live in mutual love and in unbroken loyalty. May they do Your will as
always. We ask You this through Christ our Lord.

People: Amen.

Priest: Let us pray. Bless, + O Lord, your servants, ROQUE and BABA with sufficiency of
material possessions, whish these arrhae symbolize, so that they may use them 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.

ROQUE: BABA, 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.

BABA: ROQUE, 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.

ROQUE then takes the arrhae to give to BABA…

ROQUE: BABA, accept these arrahe as a pledge of my dedication to bring to our home
my support and concern for the welfare of our family. In the name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

BABA: And I accept them as a symbol of your generosity, sincerity and faihtfulness. May I learn
to treasure and use them well in order to build a truly Christian home. In the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Priest: ROQUE and BABA, receive this Bible. Let God’s Word guide you to holiness and
strangthen you in your life as husband and wife, in building up a family for God’s Kingdom.

(The priest gives the Bible to the newly wedded couple.)

Brothers and sisters, let us now welcome ROQUE and BABA on the first day of their life
together as husband and wife. As a gesture of joy and acceptance, let us now give them a
resounding applause.
(The couple faces the congregation as the people greets and receives them with a round of
applause.)

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

PROFESSION OF FAITH

Priest & People: I believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I
believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the
Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified,
died and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again. He
ascended into heaven, and was seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come
again to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic
Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body,
and life everlasting. Amen.

PRAYER OF THE FAITHFUL

Priest: Dear brothers and sister, let us now pray for the Church and for our newly-wedded
couple, whose marriage reflects the union of Christ and his Church. For every petition we will
say: Lord, hear our prayer.

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.

People: Lord, teach us to love You as You have loved us.

Reader: For ROQUE and BABA, that they may continue to grow in God’s grace and thus, build
a family founded on faithfulness. May God protect them, lighten their burdens, and strengthen
their lives. We pray.

People: Lord, teach us to love You as You have loved us.

Reader: For the families of ROQUE and BABA who have always stood by them and for their
relatives and friends, that they may always be filled with the richness of the Lord’s blessings.
We pray.

People: Lord, teach us to love You as You have loved us.

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

People: Lord, teach us to love You as You have loved us.

People: Lord, teach us to love You as You have loved us.

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

People: Lord, teach us to love You as You have loved us.

Priest: 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 all those who love them. Through Christ our
Lord.

People: Amen.

Commentator: Please, be seated for the Liturgy of the Eucharist.

LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

(Veil and Cord ceremony)

Commentator: May I request the Veil Sponsors to place veil over ROQUE and BABA. (The veil
sponsors lay the veil over the head of the Bride and the shoulders of the Groom.)

The veil is the symbol of unity and togetherness. ROQUE and BABA, in baptism, you were
clothed with the white garment symblizing the new life of purity and joy in the Lord to which the
risen Christ has called you. We clothe you again with this precious garment as you enter into
the new phase of your life with God. Wear it unstained and the joy of the Holy Spirit shine forth
through all your children and everyone whom the Lord’s loving desire will bring into your life.

May I request the Cord Sponsors to place the cord over ROQUE and Ceclle. (The cord
sponsors place the cord over the shoulders of the couple in an 8-form)

ROQUE and BABA, let this cord symbolize the love which God binds your harts and souls
together. May your love grow stronger and help carry each other’s yoke with faithfulness and
love.

PREPARATION OF THE GIFTS

Priest: Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation. Through your goodness we have this bread
to offer which earth has given and human hands have made. It will become for us the bread of
life.

People: Blessed be God forever.

Priest: Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation. Through your goodness we have this wine to
offer, fruit of the vine and work of human hands. It will become our spiritual drink.

People: Blessed be God forever.

Priest: Pray, brethren, that our sacrifice may be acceptable to God, Almighty, Father.

People: 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 Church.

Commentator: Please, all stand.

PRAYER OVER THE GIFTS

Priest: Lord, accept the gifts we offer you on this happy day. In your fatherly love watch over
and protect ROQUE and BABA whom you have united in marriage. We ask this through Christ
our Lord.

People: Amen.

PREFACE

Priest: The Lord be with you.

People: And also with you.

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 to give him thanks and praise.

Priest: Father, all-powerful and ever-living God, we do well always and everywhere to give you
thanks through Jesus Christ our Lord. Through him you entered into a new covenant with your
people. You restored man to grace in the saving mystery of redemption. You gave him a share
in the divine life through his union with Christ. You made him an heir of Christ’s eternal glory.
This outpouring of love in the new covenant of grace is symbolized in the marriage covenant
that seals the love of husband and wife and reflects your divine plan of love. Now, with angels
and archangels, and the whole company of heaven, we sing the unending hymn of your praise.

SANCTUS

Holy, Holy, Holy (to be sung)

Commentator: Please all kneel.

EUCHARISTIC PRAYER

Priest: Lord, you are holy indeed, the foundation of all holiness. Let your Spirit come upon
these gifts to make them holy, so that they may become for us the Body+ and Blood of our Lord,
Jesus Christ. Before he was given up to death, a death he freely accepted, he took bread and
gave you thanks. He broke the bread, gave it to his disciples and said:

Take this, all of you, and eat it:

This is my body which will be given up for you.

When supper was ended, he took the cup. Again he gave yo thanks and praise, gave the cup
to his disciples, and said:

Take this, all of you, and drink from it:

This is the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and everlasting covenant.
It will be shed for you and for all so that sins may be forgiven.
Do this in memory of me.

Priest: Let us proclaim the mystery of faith.

All (to be sung): Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.

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

Priest: In memory of his death and resurrection, we offer you, Father, this life-giving bread, this
saving cup. We thank you for counting us worthy to stand in your presence and serve you.
May all of us who share in the body and blood of Christ be brought together in unity by the Holy
Spirit.

Lord, remember your Church throughout the world; make us grow in love, together with
Benedict, our Pope, and Luis Antonio, our bishop, and all the clergy.

Remember our brothers and sisters who have gone to their rest in the hope of rising again;
bring them and all the departed into the light of your presence.
Have mercy on us all; make us worthy to share eternal life with Mary, the virgin Mother of God,
with the apostles, and with all the saints who have done your will throughout the ages. May we
praise you in union with them, and give you glory through your Son, Jesus Christ.

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

People: Amen.

COMMUNION RITE

OUR FATHER

Priest: Let us pray with confidence to the Father in the words our Savior gave us.

(To be sung)

Our Father in heaven,

holy be your name;
your kingdom come;
your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us today our daily bread;

Forgive us our sins
As we forgive those who sin against us;
Do not bring us to the test
But deliver us from evil.

THE NUPTIAL BLESSING

Priest: Let My dear friends, let us ask God for his continued blessing upon ROQUE and BABA.

Holy Father, creator of the universe, maker of man and woman in your own likeness,
source of blessing for married life, we humbly pray to you for this woman who today is united
with her husband in this sacrament of marriage.

May your fullest blessing come upon her and her husband o that they may together rejoice in
our gift of married love (and enrich your Church with their children).

Lord, may they both praise you when they are happy and turn to you in their sorrows. May they
be glad that you help them in their work and know that you are with them in their need. May
they pray to you in the community of the Church, and be your witnesses in the world. May they
reach old age in the company of their friends, and come at last to the kingdom of heaven. We
ask this through Christ our Lord.

People: Amen.

PRAYER OF PEACE

Priest: LORD Jesus Christ, you said to your apostles: I leave you peace, my peace I give you.
Look not on our sins, but on the faith of your Church, and grant us the peace and unity of your
kingdom where you live for ever and ever.

People: Amen.

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

People: And also with you.

Priest: Let us offer each other the sign of peace.

(To be sung)

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.

People: Lord, I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and I shall be healed.

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

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

Commentator: May I ask the Cord and Veil Sponsors to remove the cord and the veil.

(The sponsors remove the cord and the veil)

Commentator: Please, all stand for the final prayer.

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

Priest: Let us pray. Lord, in your love you have given us this Eucharist to unite us with one
another and with you. As you have made ROQUE and BABA one in this sacrament of
Marriage, so now make them one in love for each other. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

People: Amen.

CONCLUDING RITES

ADMONITON

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

BABA, love your husband and be a good housewife; persevere in faith and love and
holiness.

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

THE SEVENFOLD BLESSING

Priest: The Lord be with you.

People: And also with you.

Priest: ROQUE and BABA, may the Lord bless you and unite your hearts in enduring bond of
pure and faithful love.

People: Amen.

Priest: May the peace of Christ dwell always in your hearts and in your home. And may your
home be always a source of that peace for others.

People: Amen.

Priest: May you have family and true friends to stand by you always, both in joy and in sorrow.

People: Amen.

Priest: May you be ready with help and comfort for those who come to your need; and may the
blessing promised to the compassionate descend in abundance on your house.

People: Amen.
Priest: May you be blessed in your work and enjoy its fruits. May care never cause you to
distress, nor desire for earthly possessions lead you astray; but may your hearts’ concern be
alsways for the treasures laid up for you in the life in heaven

People: Amen.

May the Lord grant you fullness of years, so that you may reap the harvest of a good life, and
after you have served Him with loyalty in His Kingdom on earth, may He take you up into His
eternal dominion in heaven.

People: Amen.

Priest: And may almighty God bless you all, the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit

People: Amen.

DISMISSAL

Priest: Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.

People: Thanks be to God.

Commentator: Let us give the newly married couple a big round of applause.

SIGNING OF THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT

Commentator: Please 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.)

PICTURE-TAKING

Bride and Groom with Priest

Bride and Groom

Bride and Groom with Principal Sponsors

Bride and Groom with Secondary Sponsors

Bride and Groom with Bearers and Flower Girls

Bride and Groom with Best Man, Matron of Honot and Bridesmaid

Bride and Groom with both sets of Parents

Bride and Groom with Parents of the Bride

Bride and Groom with the Family of the Bride

Bride and Groom with Parents of the Groom

Bride and Groom with the Family of the Groom

Bride and Groom with Friends

RECESSIONAL