Rite of Marriage: Theme Index of Readings
First Reading
- Male and female he created them.
- The two of them became one body.
- In his love for Rebekah, Isaac found solace after the death of his mother.
- May the Lord of heaven prosper you both. May he grant you mercy and peace.
- Allow us to live together to a happy old age.
- The woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
- Stern as death is love.
- Like the sun rising in the LORD's heavens, the beauty of a virtuous wife is the radiance of her home.
- I will make a covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
Second Reading
- What will separate us from the love of Christ?
- Offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God (Long Form)
- Offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God (Short Form)
- Welcome one another as Christ welcomed you.
- Your body is a temple of the Spirit.
- If I do not have love, I gain nothing.
- This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to the Church. (Long Form)
- This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to the Church. (Short Form)
- The God of peace be with you.
- And over all these put on love, that is, the bond of perfection.
- Let marriage be held in honor by all.
- Be of one mind, sympathetic, loving toward one another.
- Love in deed and in truth
- God is love
- Blessed are those who have been called to the wedding feast of the Lamb.
Gospel
- Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven.
- You are the light of the world.
- A wise man built his house on rock (Long Form)
- A wise man built his house on rock (Short Form)
- What God has united, man must not separate.
- This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it.
- They are no longer two, but one flesh.
- Jesus did this at the beginning of his signs in Cana in Galilee.
- Remain in my love.
- This is my commandment: love one another.
- That they may be brought to perfection as one. (Long Form)
- That they may be brought to perfection as one. (Short Form)
