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Ivy, did you come here today
in your own free will to bind yourself forever in love and service of your husband?
Yes, Father.
Wendell, did you come here today
in your own free will to bind yourself forever in love and service of your wife?
Yes, Father.
Are you ready to raise as good Christians the children whom God will give you?
Yes, Father.
Wendell & Ivy, since you both wish to contract Holy Matrimony,
please join your right hands
and express your intention before God and His Church.
Ivy, do you take Wendell, here present,
to be your lawful husband
according to the rite of our Holy Mother, the Church?
Yes, Father.
Do you give yourself to him as his wife?
Yes, Father.
Wendell, do you take Ivy, here present,
to be your lawful wife according to the rite of our Holy Mother, the Church?
Yes, I do, Father.
Do you give yourself to her as her husband?
I do.
And here forth, please now pray together.
Grant us, oh Lord,
to be one heart and one soul
from this day forward
for better or for worse,
for richer or for poorer,
in sickness and in health,
until death do us part.
And I, by the authority of the Church,
calling on all here present as witnesses,
confirm and bless the bond of marriage which you have contracted
in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Let us pray. Bless, oh Lord, your servants Wendell & Ivy,
with sufficiency of material possessions
which these arrhae symbolize so that they may use them
to attain eternal life through Christ, our Lord.
And bless, oh Lord, these rings
so that your servants Wendell & Ivy who will wear them may live in mutual love and unbroken loyalty
through Christ, our Lord.
May this Holy Bible as heard
give nourishment all day as they turn to their daily life.