Marriage
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Based on a similar document by the Catholic Society for Marriage Education, this checklist is more explicitly designed for couples preparing for a church wedding.
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Background information - intended for clergy - which contains helpful information for couples as they prepare for marriage and might help to explain some of the things that will be discussed during your marriage preparations.
Details of Marriage Preparation Courses available in Wollongong Diocese and the Greater Sydney area
SmartLoving Engaged: Online Marriage Preparation
Consisting of 9 lessons, you progress through the course at your own pace, doing the couple activities as you go. There is an option for a married Sponsor Couple from your community to accompany you through the course.
Tel: (02) 9319 6280
Web: smartloving.org/engaged | smartloving.org/wollongong
CatholicCare Partnership
With the help of a supportive facilitator, strengthen your connection with a personalised snapshot of your relationship. Gain personal insights and a deeper and shared understanding of your relationship and learn how other couples cope with life’s stressors, honour their commitment, grow, heal, and express themselves.
Topics include: The Sacrament of Marriage; Marital Spirituality; Natural Family Planning; Finance; Family of Origin; Communication; Sexuality and Creating Intimacy; Resolving Conflict; Parenting
– Phone (02) 4628 0044 Campbelltown or (02) 4227 1122 Wollongong
– Website catholiccare.dow.org.au
CatholicCare – Sydney Archdiocese (Courses in Liverpool and Carnes Hill)
– Website: catholiccare.org/family-youth-children/
– Phone: (02) 9509 1234
Engaged Encounter
A weekend course which focuses on the relationship of the couple and their relationship with God. Engaged Encounter provides an opportunity for each couple to talk privately, honestly and intensely about their future lives together; their strengths and weaknesses; desires, ambitions and goals; their attitudes about money, sex, children, and family; and their role in the Church and society.
Phone (02) 9990 3212
Website engagedencounter.org.au
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A worksheet that will help you to think a little more deeply about the Christian nature of marriage and your role and that of your spouse. It is suggested that a copy of this document is kept with the marriage papers so that there is a written record of your thoughts about marriage before the wedding.
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A worksheet that will help you to think a little more deeply about the Christian nature of marriage and your role and that of your spouse. It is suggested that a copy of this document is kept with the marriage papers so that there is a written record of your thoughts about marriage before the wedding.
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The Church keeps no official list of “approved” wedding music, but it does offer some helpful guidelines that can be applied to your choice of wedding music. In a nutshell, the Church says that good liturgical music helps the whole assembly celebrate the liturgy (in this case, your wedding) more fully. The church encourages the choice from sacred and classical music, and the following websites may provide some guidance:
- http://catholicweddinghelp.com/topics/catholic-wedding-music-list.htm
- http://whatchristianswanttoknow.com/15-best-christian-wedding-songs/
- http://christianmusic.about.com/od/specialcharts/tp/aatp081603.htm
Specific songs:
- Rob Galea, Song of Love (Wedding Song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbYkk1FfBDg - Matt Maher, Set me as a seal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZOLQLL-tWo - Chris Hayman, I Hear my Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5vO96T_6Ns - Chris Hayman, Prayer of Tobias and Sarah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-KjkU1nvmI - Darlene Zschech, Everything about you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUDK8BRfZ_g - There is love:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utdPh1Ec1Ws - Michael Card, The Wedding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrbeiseqjrU - Steve Curtis Chapman, I will be here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlxQbYPawT8
- David Haas, Wherever you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAS1NRDrNA8
The Church strongly discourages the use of recorded music during the liturgy, including during wedding liturgies. Recorded music should only be used when no musicians are available for the wedding. The whole wedding, including the music, is a prayer, and an essential element of any prayer is that it comes from the person who is offering it. Imagine using a CD or tape recording to replace a spoken prayer, like the Lord's Prayer — it just wouldn't be the same as saying it yourself. The same reasoning applies to musical prayer.
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See also: Nuptial Mass Outline
All of the texts and readings in a single document.
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See also: Nuptial Mass Outline
All of the texts and readings in a single document.
Search and replace [Name of Groom] and [Name of Bride] with your own names, delete the items you will not be using, and you have the full text of your liturgy in just a few minutes.
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A list of scripture readings that may be chosen for the marriage liturgy or for the Nuptial Mass.
Contains the texts of the Marriage Liturgy (as revised by the Third edition of the Roman Missal).
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All of the texts and readings in a single document.
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See also: Wedding Liturgy Outline
All of the texts and readings in a single document.
Search and replace [Name of Groom] and [Name of Bride] with your own names, delete the items you will not be using, and you have the full text of your liturgy in just a few minutes.
The document is formatted as A5 to make it easier to create a booklet. Not all the text needs to be included in a guest's booklet. Fr Rick will guide you in this.