Wedding Readings

first on 04-17-1993 

and again at our 10-yr "booster" 

on 04-17-2003

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Corinthians 13:4-8

Love is patient, Love is kind,
It does not envy, it does not boast,
It is not proud, It is not rude,
It is not self-seeking,
It is not easily angered,
It keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil,
but rejoices with the truth.

Love always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.

Love bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends.

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John 2:1-11

On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 

Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 

When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’ 

And Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has not yet come.’ 

His mother said to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ 

Now standing there were six stone water jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 

Jesus said to them, ‘Fill the jars with water.’ And they filled them up to the brim. 

He said to them, ‘Now draw some out, and take it to the chief steward.’ So they took it. 

When the steward tasted the water that had become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward called the bridegroom 

and said to him, ‘Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now.’ 

Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

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Only at our 10-yr ceremony:

From the Blessing of the Bride and Groom 
                (taken from a recent CFM 'ACT' issue'

Lord, may they both praise you when they are happy
And turn to you in their sorrows.
May they be glad that you help them in their work,
And know that you are with them in their need.
May they reach old age in the company of their friends,
And come at last to the kingdom of heaven.
We ask this through Christ our Lord,.
Amen