WEDDING - GOSPEL READINGS

The third reading in a Catholic wedding is always chosen from one of the four gospels. These books of the Bible were recorded during the latter half of the first century A.D. Each tells the story of Jesus through the memory of a distinct Christian community, presenting a unique picture of his early life, ministry, death, and resurrection. Many of the gospel readings for Catholic weddings are not explicitly about marriage but about the love of Christians for one another and about the call to discipleship. The passages remind us that Christian marriage is a particular way of living out one’s discipleship in Jesus Christ.
 

Read the Gospels together
and select one to be read at your wedding.

F1 - Matthew 5:1-12a Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven

F2 - Matthew 5:13-16 You are the light of the world.

F3 - Matthew 7:21, 24-29 (or Matthew 7:21, 24-25) A wise man built his house on rock.

F4 - Matthew 19:3-6 What God has united, man must not separate.

F5 - Matthew 22:35-40 This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it.

F6 - Mark 10:6-9 They are no longer two, but one flesh,

F7 - John 2:1-11 Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs in Cana in Galilee.

F8 - John 15:9-12 Remain in my love.

F9 - John 15:12-16 This is my commandment: love one another.

F10 - John 17:20-26 (or John 17:20-23) That they may be brought to perfection as one.

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