Nuptial Mass Readings

Posted on | January 29, 2007
by | Kim, Obl.O.S.B

Friends,

Here are the readings for our Nuptial Mass. Let me know what you think:

1. Tobit 8:4-8

   When the girl’s parents left the bedroom and closed the door behind them, Tobiah arose from bed and said to his wife, “My love, get up. Let us pray and beg our Lord to have mercy on us and to grant us deliverance.”

   She got up, and they started to pray and beg that deliverance might be theirs. He began with these words: “Blessed are you, O God of our fathers; praised be your name forever and ever. Let the heavens and all your creation praise you forever.

   You made Adam and you gave him his wife Eve to be his help and support; and from these two the human race descended. You said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone; let us make him a partner like himself.’

   Now, Lord, you know that I take this wife of mine not because of lust, but for a noble purpose. Call down your mercy on me and on her, and allow us to live together to a happy old age.”

   They said together, “Amen, amen.”

2. Revelation 19: 1,5-9After this I heard what sounded like the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying: “Alleluia! Salvation, glory, and might belong to our God.

   A voice coming from the throne said: “Praise our God, all you his servants, (and) you who revere him, small and great.”

   Then I heard something like the sound of a great multitude or the sound of rushing water or mighty peals of thunder, as they said: “Alleluia! The Lord has established his reign, (our) God, the almighty.

   Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory. For the wedding day of the Lamb has come, his bride has made herself ready.

   She was allowed to wear a bright, clean linen garment.”

   Then the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who have been called to the wedding feast of the Lamb.”

3. John 17:20-26“I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. And I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may be brought to perfection as one, that the world may know that you sent me, and that you loved them even as you loved me.

   Father, they are your gift to me. I wish that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see my glory that you gave me, because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

   Righteous Father, the world also does not know you, but I know you, and they know that you sent me. I made known to them your name and I will make it known, that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in them.”

Pax!!

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