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Fr. Dara Molloy for your Wedding Blessing

Bishop Pat Buckley for your Wedding Blessing

May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon the fields.

May the light of friendship guide your paths together.
May the laughter of children grace the halls of your home.
May the joy of living for one another trip a smile from your lips,
A twinkle from your eye.

And when eternity beckons,
at the end of a life heaped high with love,
May the good Lord embrace you
with the arms that have nurtured you
the whole length of your joy-filled days.
May the gracious God hold you both in the palm of His hands.

And, today, may the Spirit of Love find a dwelling place in your hearts

The couple are recommended to say together the following or some similar prayer:

We thank you, Lord, and we praise you
for bringing us to this happy day.
You have given us to each other.
Now, together, we give ourselves to you.

We ask you Lord:
make us one in our love:
keep us one in your peace.

Protect our marriage. Bless our home.
Make us gentle. Keep us faithful.

And when life is over unite us again
where parting is no more in the kingdom of your love.

There we will praise you in the happiness and peace
of our eternal home. Amen.

Alternatively, the prayer may be said before or after the prayer after communion.

or


Lord Jesus,
(on this happy day)
we thank you for the joy of N. and N.
Through all the years of their life
you have watched over them
to bring them together in holy Christian marriage.
Now Lord, bless them,
for they are united in love of you and of each other.
Redeemed by your Precious Blood
and strengthened by your grace,
may they live in kindness and fidelity,
in unfailing trust and love
so that their whole life may be pleasing to you.

Mary, who with Joseph
made a happy home at Nazareth for Jesus,
take these dear friends into your motherly care.
You who showed concern for a newly married couple at Cana,
help and guide N. and N.
May their union on earth lead to that eternal union
in which all the blessed will be joined together,
praising the Redeeming Blood of Jesus, the Lord.

Amen.
or

O God, the giver of all that is true and lovely and gracious:We give you thanks for binding us together in these holymysteries of the Body and Blood of your Son Jesus Christ.Grant that by your Holy Spirit, N and N, now joined in HolyMatrimony, may become one in heart and soul, live in fidelityand peace, and obtain those eternal joys prepared for all wholove you; for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.