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A few Ceremonies
Commissioning of Extraordinary Ministers of the
Eucharist
- Dear friends in Christ, our brothers and sisters are to be
entrusted with administering the Eucharist and with taking communion
to the sick.
- In this ministry, you must be examples of Christian living in
faith and conduct; you must strive to grow in holiness through this
sacrament of unity and love. Remember that, though many, we are one
body because we share the one bread and one cup.
- As ministers of holy communion be, therefore, especially
observant of the Lord's command to lover your neighbor.
- Priest: Are you resolved to undertake the office of
ministering the body and blood of the Lord to your brothers and
sisters, and so serve to build up the Church?
- Respond: I am
- Priest: Are you resolved to administer the holy
Eucharist with the utmost care and reverence?
- Respond: I am
- Prayer of Blessing
- Dear friends in Christ, let us pray with confidence to the
Father; let us ask him to bestow his blessings on our brothers
and sisters, chosen to be ministers of the Eucharist.
- Merciful Father, creator and guide of your family, bless our
brothers and sisters.
- May the faithfully give the bread of life to your people.
- Strengthened by this sacrament, may they come at last to the
banquet of heaven.
- We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
 Renewal of Marriage
Vows
- Dear Friends, you have come together in this Church so that the
Lord may continue to seal and strengthen your love with His grace in
the presence of the Church's minister and this community. Christ has
abundantly blessed your love and he has consecrated you by the
special sacrament of Matrimony so that you may fulfill the duties of
marriage in mutual and lasting fidelity. Since it is your intention
to renew this commitment, please join your right hands and renew
your consent before God and His Church.
- The Bridegrooms say:
- I, N. take you, N., to be my wife. I promise to be true to you
in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you
and honor you all the days of my life.
- The Brides say:
- I, N. take you, N., to be my husband. I promise to be true to
you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love
you and honor you all the days of my life.
- My dear friends, let us ask God for his continued blessing upon
these couples.
- Holy Father, creator of the universe, maker of man and woman in
your own likeness, source of blessing for married life, we humbly
pray to you for these couples who today have renewed their marriage
vows.
- May your fullest blessing come upon them so that they may
continue to rejoice in your gift of married love.
- Lord, may they 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 pray to you in
the community of the Church, and be your witnesses in the world 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.
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