(Closed) Which readings did you choose for your wedding?

posted 6 years ago in Catholic
Post # 1
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Bumble bee
  • Wedding: October 2012

I just sent in our choices today!
The “Together for Life” book did not have the Old Testament reading I wanted. I stood in a wedding once that used a reading from the book of Ruth that I LOVED. It just spoke to me so much. Basically Ruth’s husband, her brother-in-law, and her father in law have all died, and her mother in law, Naomi, is telling her that despite her being a good daughter-in-law, it’s time for her to go home to where she came from to find a new husband. But Ruth loves her mother-in-law so much that she says: “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.”

I just love that 🙂

The NT reading will either be Romans 12:1-2; 9-18 or Colossians 3:12-17. I haven’t decided yet. Who else is doing something other than 1 Corinthians 12:31… ? I would LOVE to hear some fresh NT choices.

Thanks!

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Post # 3
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Helper bee
  • Wedding: November 2012

Our decision was a very easy one, my Fiance read all three of these to me right before he proposed! We love the common theme woven throughout all three of them. 

 

And we both thought that 1 Corinthians was overdone! 

 

 

Genesis 2:18-24

Ephesians 5:2.21-33

Matthew 7:21. 24-29

Post # 4
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Bumble bee
  • Wedding: October 2012

@moose91:  That is TOO sweet. And I love that Matt. reading for a gospel, what a strong message!

Post # 5
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Sugar bee

I also thought about that passage from Ruth, and suggested it to Fiance, but we decided to go with Song of Songs instead. Psalm will be 128 (Steve Warner’s setting).  We are still deciding between Romans 12 and Colossians 3 for the NT reading. Gospel will definitely be the Wedding at Cana (John 2).

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