Catholic Weddings

Notes and Texts for Presiders at Catholic Weddings

• Presider's Guide to Planning and Celebrating Catholic Wedding Rites
  Includes many useful links and discussions of additional symbolic rituals.

• Word document with contents for the Presider's folder for a Catholic Wedding Service (without Mass)
  Includes texts from the 1971 rite for England and Wales not readily available elsewhere, including the official alternative prayers, and the rites for use when an unbaptised person marries a Catholic.

• Word document with additional contents for the Presider's folder for a Catholic Wedding Mass
  For use together with the 'Marriage Rite' section of the above document, this provides only a collect to conclude the Bidding Prayers, the optional fourth form of final blessing for England and Wales and the embolisms for the Eucharistic Prayers.

• Rubrics for England and Wales (PDF, Liturgy Office, London)
• Appendix to the same document (PDF)
• Directory on Mixed Marriages (PDF)
• One Bread One Body (PDF) - norms on when Catholics and other Christians can share Holy Communion on special ocassions

To Assist Couples Preparing for Catholic Weddings

• A guide to the Paperwork needed to apply for a Catholic Wedding
• Letters of Freedom: What they are and how to obtain them.

• General guidelines for planning a Catholic Wedding Ceremony
• A selection of suitable hymns for weddings

• Nuptial Mass: Planning Sheet and Template for Booklet
• Alternative Mass template from St John's Wood Parish (Word)

• Wedding Service (without Mass): Planning Sheet and Template for Booklet
• Alternative Service template from St John's Wood Parish (Word)

Pastoral Care for Marriage

• Not Easy, But Full of Meaning - a pastoral reflection on marriage
• Pastoral Care of the Divorced and Separated
• Cherishing Life
• Directory of Marriage Support links

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