Introduction

Commentator: Dear family, relatives and friends, today, we are

gathered here to witness the promise of love that unites
JAY PAULO and KAREN JEAN 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 JAY PAULO and KAREN JEAN, 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 JAY PAULO and
KAREN JEAN 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,
JAY PAULO and KAREN JEAN, 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, JAY PAULO
and KAREN JEAN, 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 JAY PAULO
and KAREN JEAN, 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 ir st 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 lle lu ia A cclamat io n
Alleluia, alleluia.
Whoever remains in love, remains in God and God in
him.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Go sp e l (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 m ily

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

Priest: Dearly beloved, JAY PAULO and KAREN JEAN, 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: JAY PAULO and KAREN JEAN, May I now ask you
to answer truthfully the following questions:

KAREN JEAN, 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: JAY PAULO, 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?
JAY PAULO and KAREN JEAN: Yes, Father.

EXCHANGE OF CONSENT
Priest: JAY PAULO and KAREN JEAN, 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: KAREN JEAN, do you take JAY PAULO, 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: JAY PAULO, do you take KAREN JEAN, 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.
JAY PAULO and KAREN JEAN: 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: JAY PAULO and KAREN JEAN 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 JAY PAULO and
KAREN JEAN 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 JAY
PAULO and KAREN JEAN, 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: KAREN JEAN, 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: JAY PAULO, 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: KAREN JEAN, 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 JAY PAULO and KAREN JEAN 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 ray er s of t he Fa it hful
Priest: Heavenly Father we have just witnessed the covenant of
marriage between JAY PAULO and KAREN JEAN.
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 JAY PAULO and KAREN JEAN, 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 JAY PAULO and KAREN JEAN 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 JAY PAULO and KAREN JEAN 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 JAY PAULO

 and KAREN JEAN,
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
JAY PAULO and KAREN JEAN, 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
KAREN JEAN, 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 JAY
PAULO, 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: JAY PAULO and KAREN JEAN, now that you have
received the holy sacrament of Matrimony, I admonish
you to remain faithful to one another.
KAREN JEAN, love your husband JAY PAULO and be
a good housewife; persevere in faith and love and
holiness.

JAY PAULO, love your wife KAREN JEAN. 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 a l 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.
JAY PAULO and KAREN JEAN, 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