Tordecillas and Prado

Nuptials GLORIA

Cathedral Parish of St. John the Baptist Priest: Glory to God in the highest.
Diocese of Kalibo
Kalibo, Aklan All: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to
people of good will. We praise you, we bless you, we
INTRODUCTORY RITE adore you, we glorify you, we give you thanks for your
great glory, Lord God, heavenly King, O God,
After everybody in the wedding entourage has processed and has taken proper Almighty Father.
places in the congregation, the celebration of the Holy Mass begins.
Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb
Commentator: Good afternoon brothers and sisters in Christ. of God, Son of the Father, you take away the sins of the
Today, we gather as a community to participate world, have mercy on us; you take away
in the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the
Mass and to witness the celebration of the
Sacrament of Matrimony between JUN REY the sins of the world, receive our prayer; you are seated
and JONAH ELIZA. Let us all stand. at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on us. For
you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord,
Priest: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, with the
Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.
All: Amen. THE COLLECT
Priest: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of Priest: Let us pray.
God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you O God, who in creating the human race willed that man
all. and wife should be one, join, we pray, in a bond of
inseparable love these your servants, JUN REY and
All: And with your spirit. JONAH ELIZA who are to be united in the covenant
of Marriage, so that, as you make their love fruitful,
Priest: Dear brothers and sisters, the Holy Sacrament of they may become, by your grace, witnesses to charity
Matrimony is a covenant of God’s love between man itself. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who
and woman. It is most fitting that we celebrate this lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
sacred Love of God, manifested in the divine marital one God, for ever and ever.
bond between JUN REY and JONAH ELIZA, in the
celebration of the Word and of the Eucharist. As the All: Amen.
Christian family of JUN REY and JONAH ELIZA,
we remind them that they are called to a life of holiness Commentator: All be seated.
and fidelity as husband and wife. Let us rejoice with
them and ask God’s blessing for them and for their
family.
 Return my soul to the lord our God who bids tears away
I love the lord
2. How can I repay the lord for all the goodness he has shown me?
THE LITURGY OF THE WORD I will raise the cup of salvation and call on his name
I love the lord
FIRST READING (Tobit 8:4b-8)
A reading from the book of Tobit. 3. I shall live my vows to you before your people
I am your servant
On their wedding night, Tobiah rose from bed and said to his wife, “My I will offer you my sacrifice of praise and of pray'r
sister, come, let us pray and beg our Lord to grant us mercy and I love the lord
protection.”
SECOND READING (Philippians 4:4-9)
She got up, and they started to pray and beg that they might be A reading from the letter of St Paul to the Philippians
protected. He began with these words:
“Blessed are you, O God of our ancestors; Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again: rejoice!
blessed be your name forever and ever!
Let the heavens and all your creation bless you forever. Your kindness should be known to all. The Lord is near.

You made Adam, and you made his wife Eve Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with
to be his helper and support; thanksgiving, make your requests known to God.
and from these two the human race has come.
You said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone; Then the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your
let us make him a helper like himself.’ hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

Now, not with lust, Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is
but with fidelity I take this kinswoman as my wife. just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there
Send down your mercy on me and on her, is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about
and grant that we may grow old together. these things.
Bless us with children.”
Keep on doing what you have learned and received and heard and seen
They said together, “Amen, amen!” in me. Then the God of peace will be with you.

The Word of the Lord. The Word of the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God. All: Thanks be to God.

Commentator: Please all stand to honor the Holy Gospel.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM (Psalm 116)
Response: ALLELUIA
I love the lord, he is filled with compassion Alleluia! Alleluia!
He turned to me on the day that I called This is my commandment: love one another, as I loved you.
From the snares of the dark, oh, lord, save my life Alleluia! Alleluia!
Be my strength

1. Gracious is the lord, and just

Our God is mercy, rest to the weary
GOSPEL READING (Jn 15:9-12) THE RITE OF MARRIAGE ALLOCUTION

Priest: The Lord be with you. Priest: Dearly beloved JUN REY and JONAH ELIZA; you are here
All: And with your spirit. today to seal your love with an eternal bond before the Church.

Priest: A reading from the holy Gospel according to John. I assure you of the prayers of our Christian community,
that God may pour his abundant blessings on your love
All: Glory to you, O Lord. and help you carry out the duties of the married state.
And you, dear parents, principal sponsors, brothers and
Jesus said to his disciples: 'As the Father has loved me, sisters, relatives and friends, may I ask you to help JUN
so I have loved you. Remain in my love. If you keep REY and JONAH ELIZA with your prayers and
my commandments you will remain in my love, just as accept them as a new couple in our Christian
I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in community.
his love. I have told you this so that my own joy may be
in you and your joy be complete. SCRUTINY
This is my commandment: love one another, as I loved
you.' Priest: May I now ask each of you, JUN REY and JONAH
ELIZA, to answer truthfully the following questions.
Priest: The Gospel of the Lord.
Priest: JONAH ELIZA, did you come here of your own free
All: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. will to bind yourself for ever in the love and service of
your husband, JUN REY?
Commentator: All be seated for the homily.
JONAH ELIZA: Yes, father.
HOMILY
Priest: JUN REY, did you come here of your own free will to
THE RITE OF MARRIAGE bind yourself for ever in the love and service of your
wife, JONAH ELIZA?
All remain seated, excluding the bride and bridegroom, whom the Priest now
addresses, using one of the formularies given below or similar words. JUN REY: Yes, father.

Commentator: All remain seated for the beginning of the Rite Priest: JUN REY and JONAH ELIZA, are you both ready to
of Marriage. JUN REY and JONAH ELIZA, raise as good Christian the children whom God will
please stand. May I request the parents, the ring give you?
bearer, the coin bearer, the best man and the
maid of honor to stand beside the couple. The JUN REY and JONAH ELIZA: Yes, father.
principal sponsors are likewise requested to
stand and remain on the first step of the EXCHANGE OF CONSENT
sanctuary.
Priest: JUN REY and JONAH ELIZA, since you wish to
contract Holy Matrimony, please join your right hands
 and express your intention before God and his Church. Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Priest: JONAH ELIZA, do you take JUN REY here present, All: Amen.
for your lawful husband, according to the rite of our Holy Mother, the BLESSING OF RINGS AND ARRHAE
Church?
Priest: JUN REY and JONAH ELIZA, we shall now bless
JONAH ELIZA: Yes, I do. your rings and arrhae. (Pause) Our help is in the name
of the Lord.
Priest: Do you give yourself to JUN REY as his wife?
All: Who made heaven and earth.
JONAH ELIZA: Yes I do.
Priest: Let us pray. Bless, O Lord, these rings, so that your
Priest: Do you accept JUN REY as your lawful husband? servants JUN REY and JONAH ELIZA, who will
wear them, may ever live in mutual love and in
JONAH ELIZA: Yes I do. unbroken loyalty. Through Christ our Lord.

Priest: JUN REY, do you take JONAH ELIZA here present, All: Amen.
for your lawful wife, according to the rite of our Holy
Mother, the Church? Priest: Let us pray. Bless, O Lord, your servants JUN REY
and JONAH ELIZA with the sufficiency of material
JUN REY: Yes, I do. possessions, which these arrhae symbolize, so that they
may use them to attain eternal life. We ask this through
Priest: Do you give yourself to JONAH ELIZA as her Christ our Lord.
husband?
All: Amen.
JUN REY: Yes I do.
Priest sprinkles the rings and the arrhae with holy water.
Priest: Do you accept JONAH ELIZA as your lawful wife?
Priest: Now, give these rings to each other.
JUN REY: Yes, I do.
Groom places the ring on the right ring finger of the Bride, saying:
Priest: JUN REY and JONAH ELIZA, please pray together
the following: JUN REY: JONAH ELIZA, wear this ring as a sign of my
love and fidelity to you. In the name of the
JUN REY and JONAH ELIZA: Grant us, O Lord, to be one Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
heart and one soul, from this day
forward, for better, for worse, for Bride places the ring on the right ring finger of the Groom, saying:
richer, for poorer, in sickness and in
health, until death do us part. JONAH ELIZA: JUN REY, wear this ring as a sign of my love
and fidelity to you. In the name of the Father,
CONFIRMATION OF THE MARRIAGE BOND and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Priest: And I, by the authority of the Church, calling all those Groom takes the arrhae with both hands. Bride places her cupped hands under
present here as witnesses, confirm and bless the bond of the hands of the groom. The groom places the arrhae into the hands of the
Marriage which you have contracted. In the name of the bride, saying:
 in truth to each other, we pray:

Reader: For all the family members of the couple – may they
keep delighting in the Lord’s gift of health in spirit and
JUN REY: JONAH ELIZA, I give you these arrhae as a pledge of in body and hope for the favors of God-given prosperity
my dedication to your welfare. In the name of the and enduring strength in the daily struggles of life, we
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. pray:

JONAH ELIZA: And I accept them. Reader: For JUN REY and JONAH ELIZA, who were united
today in the Sacrament of Matrimony, may God bestow
Priest: My dear parents, principal sponsors, bothers and sisters, on them the strong foundation for a family after the
relatives and friends, may I enjoin you all as a sign of example of the Holy Family at Nazareth and raise their
our communal affirmation for the newly-wedded children according to the guidance of the Holy Spirit,
couple, JUN REY and JONAH ELIZA, let us give we pray:
them our heartfelt applause.
Reader: For all the dead especially the departed members of the
Commentator: May I request the parents, principal sponsors celebrating families – may they be given welcome into
and all others to kindly return to your the eternal happiness and peace in heaven, we pray:
respective seats. All Stand.
Priest: Merciful Father, listen to the supplications we beg from
PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL you with trusting faith. Assist us in living our
commitment to you and in loving you and one another
Priest: Brothers and sisters, God is the eternal source of love by the gracious example of Jesus. Grant this through the
and the powerful foundation of divine goodness, let us same Christ our Lord.
offer to him our needs as we entreat him, saying:
All: Amen.
All: Lord, keep us faithful and strong in your love.
Commentator: All be seated for the offertory procession.
Reader: For Holy Mother the Church, our Pope Francis, our
Bishop Jose Corazon, all the bishops, priests, deacons, LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST
and the religious – may they continue to be the living
examples of the true and faithful love for the People of After the offertory procession, the newly wedded couple is asked to kneel down.
God, we pray: The marriage symbols are placed at this moment.

Reader: For our country and our leaders in the government – Commentator: May I request the Candle Sponsors to light
may they be transformed in mind and heart to fulfill the candles. (after) Veil Sponsors to put on the
their solemn promise of humanitarian service laden wedding veil. (after) The Cord Sponsors to
with values of the Gospel especially in protecting the place the cord on JUN REY and JONAH
dignity of Marriage and Family and in defending the ELIZA.
sanctity of human life at all cost, we pray:
PREPARATION OF THE GIFTS
Reader: For all married couples here present and all those
contemplating on Marriage – may they be steadfast in Priest: Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation, for through
the grace of the Sacrament of Matrimony and always your goodness we have received the bread we offer
come to the renewal of living their vows in fidelity and you: fruit of the earth and work of human hands, it will
 become for us the bread of life sweet yoke of harmony and an unbreakable bond of
peace, so that the chaste and fruitful love of holy
All: Blessed be God forever Matrimony may serve to increase the children you
adopt as your own.
Priest: Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation, for through By your providence and grace, O Lord, you accomplish
your goodness we have received the wine we offer you: the wonder of this twofold design: that, while the birth
fruit of the vine and work of human hands, it will of children brings beauty to the world, their rebirth in
become our spiritual drink. Baptism gives increase to the Church, through Christ
our Lord. Through him, with the Angels and all the
All: Blessed be God forever Saints, we sing the hymn of your praise, as without end
we acclaim:
After the priest washes his hands, the commentator says:
SANCTUS
Commentator: All Stand.
All: Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts.
Priest: Pray, brethren (brothers and sisters), that my sacrifice Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
and yours may be acceptable to God, the almighty Hosanna in the highest.
Father. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest.
All: May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands for the
praise and glory of his name, for our good and the good Commentator: All kneel.
of all his holy Church.
EUCHARISTIC PRAYER II
PRAYER OVER THE GIFTS
Priest: You are indeed Holy, O Lord, the fount of all
Priest: Receive, we pray, O Lord, the offering made on the holiness. Make holy, therefore, these gifts, we pray, by
occasion of this sealing of the sacred bond of Marriage, sending down your Spirit upon them like the dewfall,
and, just as your goodness is its origin, may your so that they may become for us the Body and  Blood
providence guide its course. Through Christ our Lord. of our Lord Jesus Christ.

All: Amen. At the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into
his Passion, he took bread and, giving thanks, broke it,
Priest: The Lord be with you. and gave it to his disciples, saying:
All: And with your spirit.
TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND EAT OF IT, FOR
Priest: Lift up your hearts. THIS IS MY BODY, WHICH WILL BE GIVEN UP
All: We lift them up to the Lord. FOR YOU.
In a similar way, when supper was ended, he took the
Priest: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. chalice and, once more giving thanks, he gave it to his
All: It is right and just. disciples, saying:

Priest: It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation, TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND DRINK FROM IT,
always and everywhere to give you thanks, Lord, Holy FOR THIS IS THE CHALICE OF MY BLOOD, THE
Father, Almighty and Eternal God. BLOOD OF THE NEW AND ETERNAL
For you have forged the covenant of marriage as a COVENANT, WHICH WILL BE POURED OUT FOR
 YOU AND FOR MANY FOR THE FORGIVENESS Commentator: All stand.
OF SINS. DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME.

Priest: The mystery of faith: THE COMMUNION RITE

All: We proclaim your death, O Lord, and profess your Priest: At the Saviour's command and formed by divine
resurrection, until you come again. teaching, we dare to say:

Priest: Therefore, as we celebrate the memorial of his Death All: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name;
and Resurrection, we offer you, Lord, the Bread of life thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in
and the Chalice of salvation, giving thanks that you heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us
have held us worthy to be in your presence and minister our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against
to you. Humbly we pray that, partaking of the Body and us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from
Blood of Christ, we may be gathered into one by the evil.
Holy Spirit. Remember, Lord, your Church, spread
throughout the world, and bring her to the fullness of
charity, together with Francis our Pope and Jose NUPTIAL BLESSING
Corazon our Bishop and all the clergy.
Priest: Let us pray to the Lord for this bride and groom, who
*Be mindful also, Lord, of JUN REY and JONAH come to the altar as they begin their married life, that
ELIZA, whom you have brought to their wedding day, (by partaking of the Body and Blood of Christ) they
so that by your grace they may abide in mutual love and may always be bound together by love for one another.
in peace.
Holy Father, who formed man in your own image, male
Remember also our brothers and sisters who have fallen and female you created them, so that as husband and
asleep in the hope of the resurrection, and all who have wife, united in body and heart, they might fulfil their
died in your mercy: welcome them into the light of your calling in the world;
face.
O God, who, to reveal the great design you formed in
Have mercy on us all, we pray, that with the Blessed your love, willed that the love of spouses for each other
Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with the blessed Apostles, should foreshadow the covenant you graciously made
and all the Saints who have pleased you throughout the with your people,
ages, we may merit to be coheirs to eternal life, and so that, by fulfilment of the sacramental sign,
may praise and glorify you through your Son, Jesus the mystical marriage of Christ with his Church might
Christ. become manifest in the union of husband and wife
among your faithful; Graciously stretch out your right
DOXOLOGY hand over these your servants JUN REY and JONAH
ELIZA, we pray, and pour into their hearts the power
Priest: Through him, and with him, and in him, of the Holy Spirit.
O God, almighty Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
all glory and honour is yours, for ever and ever. Grant, O Lord, that, as they enter upon this sacramental
union, they may share with one another the gifts of your
All: Amen. love and,
by being for each other a sign of your presence, become
 one heart and one mind.
All: Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my
May they also sustain, O Lord, by their deeds the home roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.
they are forming (and prepare their children to become
members of your heavenly household by raising them After the newly-wedded couple has taken Holy Communion, the wedding cord
in the way of the Gospel). and veil may be removed.

Graciously crown with your blessings your daughter Commentator: The cord and veil may now be removed.
JONAH ELIZA, so that, by being a good wife (and
mother), she may bring warmth to her home with a love After everybody has taken Holy Communion…
that is pure and adorn it with welcoming graciousness.
Commentator: All Stand.

Bestow a heavenly blessing also, O Lord, on JUN PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

REY, your servant, that he may be a worthy, good and
faithful husband (and a provident father). Priest: Let us pray.
By the power of this sacrifice, O Lord, accompany with
Grant, holy Father, that, desiring to approach your table your loving favour what in your providence you have
as a couple joined in Marriage in your presence, they instituted, so as to make of one heart in love those you
may one day have the joy of taking part in your great have already joined in this holy union and replenished
banquet in heaven. Through Christ our Lord. with the one Bread and the one Chalice.
Through Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.
All: Amen.
Priest: The peace of the Lord be with you always.
THE CONCLUDING RITES ADMONITION
All: And with your spirit.
Priest: JUN REY and JONAH ELIZA, now that you have
Priest: Let us offer each other the sign of peace. received the Holy Sacrament of Matrimony, I admonish
you to remain faithful to one another.
AGNUS DEI
JONAH ELIZA, love JUN REY, your husband and be
All: Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, a good wife; persevere in faith, in love and in holiness.
have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, JUN REY, love JONAH ELIZA, your wife, as Christ
have mercy on us. loves his Church and live with her in the holy fear of
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, the Lord.
grant us peace.
THE FINAL BLESSING
Commentator: All Kneel.
Priest: The Lord be with you.
Priest: Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who takes away
All: And with your spirit.
the sins of the world. Blessed are those called to the
supper of the Lamb. Priest: Bow down for God’s blessing.
Priest: May God the all-powerful Father grant you his joy and
bless you and your children.

All: Amen.

Priest: May the Only Begotten Son of God stand by you with
compassion in good times and in bad.

All: Amen.

Priest: May the Holy Spirit of God always pour forth his love
into your hearts.

All: Amen.

Priest: And may almighty God bless you, the Father and the
Son, and the Holy Spirit.

All: Amen.

DISMISSAL

Priest: Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.

All: Thanks be to God.

Priest: My dear friends, with joy and gratitude to God,

I now present to you,
MR. & MRS. JUN REY TORDECILLAS.