{"id":47277,"date":"2019-06-30T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=47277"},"modified":"2019-06-25T18:31:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T01:31:54","slug":"wedding-mass-readings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/30\/wedding-mass-readings\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding Mass Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As I’ve mentioned before, at the moment virtually all my friends are getting married. Over the course of life thus far I’ve been to many weddings and got to hear many different Scripture selections by different couples. Needless to say I’ve heard 1 Corinthians 13<\/a> far too often! At the most recent wedding, the subject came up and I shared what would be my own Scripture choices for my own wedding. I figured that I may as well turn it into a blog post \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First Reading (Tobit 8:4-9)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I love this passage from the deuterocanon since it describes chastity, even in marriage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the door was shut and the two were alone, Tobi\u2032as got up from the bed and said, \u201cSister, get up, and let us pray that the Lord may have mercy upon us.\u201d And Tobi\u2032as began to pray,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBlessed art thou, O God of our fathers,
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and blessed be thy holy and glorious name for ever.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Let the heavens and all thy creatures bless thee.
Thou madest Adam and gavest him Eve his wife
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0as a helper and support.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0From them the race of mankind has sprung.
Thou didst say, \u2018It is not good that the man should be alone;
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0let us make a helper for him like himself.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now, O Lord, I am not taking this sister of mine because of lust, but with sincerity. Grant that I may find mercy and may grow old together with her.\u201d And she said with him, \u201cAmen.\u201dThen they both went to sleep for the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Responsorial Psalm (#127)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I haven’t found an arrangement of this that I like, so here’s how I would arrange it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

R. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unless the Lord builds the house,
    those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the Lord watches over the city,
    the watchman stays awake in vain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious toil;
    for he gives to his beloved sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

R. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lo, sons are a heritage from the Lord,
    the fruit of the womb a reward.
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior
    are the sons of one\u2019s youth.
Happy is the man who has
    his quiver full of them!
He shall not be put to shame
    when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

R. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This psalm is emphases that if one is to make a house (or even a home), it must be the Lord who builds it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second Reading (Ephesians 5:21-33; 6:1-3)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This passage touches on the mystery of marriage and the mystery of Christ and His Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the church,because we are members of his body.\u201cFor this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.\u201dThis is a great mystery, and I mean in reference to Christ and the church; however, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.\u201cHonor your father and mother\u201d (this is the first commandment with a promise),\u201cthat it may be well with you and that you may live long on the earth.\u201dFathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gospel (John 13:1-20)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The essence of marriage is sacrifice and service and nothing exemplifies this better than Jesus’ Mandatum, his new commandment to love each other as He has loved us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.And during supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon\u2019s son, to betray him,\u00a0Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God,\u00a0rose from supper, laid aside his garments, and girded himself with a towel.\u00a0Then he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples\u2019 feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded.\u00a0He came to Simon Peter; and Peter said to him, \u201cLord, do you wash my feet?\u201d\u00a0Jesus answered him, \u201cWhat I am doing you do not know now, but afterward you will understand.\u201d\u00a0Peter said to him, \u201cYou shall never wash my feet.\u201d Jesus answered him, \u201cIf I do not wash you, you have no part in me.\u201d\u00a0Simon Peter said to him, \u201cLord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!\u201d Jesus said to him, \u201cHe who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet,\u00a0but he is clean all over; and you are clean, but not all of you.\u201d For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, \u201cYou are not all clean.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and resumed his place, he said to them, \u201cDo you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am.\u00a0If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another\u2019s feet.\u00a0For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.\u00a0Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.\u00a0If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. I am not speaking of you all; I know whom I have chosen; it is that the scripture may be fulfilled, \u2018He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.\u2019 I tell you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he.\u00a0Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives any one whom I send receives me; and he who receives me receives him who sent me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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