PLANNING
Your Marriage Service
With Traditional and Contemporary Readings
Christopher L. Webber
and
Margaret Webber
Copyright © 1992 by Christopher L. Webber and Margaret Webber
Morehouse Publishing
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Harrisburg, PA 17105
A division of The Morehouse Group
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Permission is given with the purchase of this book to make single copies of the “choices” page and of the readings for use in the marriage service.
Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Used by permission.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Webber, Christopher.
Planning your marriage service / Christopher L. Webber and
Margaret Webber.
p. cm.
ISBN: 0-8192-1590-2 (pbk.)
1. Marriage service. I. Webber, Margaret. II. Title.
BV199.M3W43 1992 92-15257
265'.5—dc20 CIP
Printed in the United States of America
Third Printing, 2000
CONTENTS
D. The Presentation (optional)
H. The Blessing of the Marriage
M. The Postcommunion Prayer, Dismissal, and Procession
The suggested readings are drawn from the following sources. An asterisk indicates that the wording and spelling have been slightly changed to conform to modern usage or for inclusive language.
Augustine of Hippo, in Readings for the Daily Office from the Early Church, pp. 290–291, J. Robert Wright, ed., (New York: Church Hymnal Corporation, 1991). Used by permission. Buechner, Frederick, The Hungering Dark, pp. 93–95. Copyright © 1969 by Frederick Buechner. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. de Chardin, Teilhar, The Hymn of the Universe, p. 145. Copyright © 1961 by Editions de Seuil. English translation copyright © 1965 by William Collins Sons and Company, Ltd. and Harper and Row Publishers, Inc. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
* Donne, John, The Sermons of John Donne, 10 Volumes, pp. 245–255, volume 3. Edited and translated by Evelyn Simpson and George Potter, copyright © 1953–1962 by Regents. Used by permission of the University of California Press.
* Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, p. 9 and p. 169; edited by Dom Roger Hudleston, OSB, (London: