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  •              schedule a wedding
    • Congratulations on your Engagement!

      We are honored to help with your marriage preparation. Please contact the parish office at least 8 months prior to the proposed wedding date to arrange a meeting with the priest or deacon. At this initial meeting, the priest or deacon will outline the required preparation and help you with scheduling a wedding date. No wedding date will be made prior to meeting with the priest or deacon. Please click on the link for the Wedding Guidelines, which will help you in the planning of your ceremony.

       Wedding Guidelines       

      But even more important is planning and preparing for your Marriage. Start with the Better Together Marriage Prep Inventory sponsored by the good folks at Dynamic Catholic.

      Marriage Prep Inventory
       

      Don't forget to pray, breathe, and enjoy the journey!
      This should be a wonderful experience for you both. Don't let the details overwhelm you, remember, the wedding is one day, your marriage last a lifetime! 
       
    • Below are the some music suggestions for your Wedding Mass. Each song has a live link that you can click and hear the music. If you have other selections, please feel free to discuss with the Director of Music Ministries. 

      Procession

      Processional music at St. John's is played on an organ.
      We have indcluded organ versions where we could.

      • Canon in D Major: Johann Pachelbel     
      • Canon in D Major: Johann Pachelbel (ORGAN) 
      • Hornpipe (Water Song): George Fredric Handel
      • Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring: Johann Sebastian Bach
      • Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring: Johann Sebastian Bach (ORGAN)
      • Ode to Joy: Beethoven
      • Ode to Joy: Beethoven (ORGAN) 
      • Rondeau: Jean Joseph Mouret
      • Rondeau: Jean Joseph Mouret (ORGAN) 
      • Trumpet Tune: Henry Purcell
      • Trumpet Tune: Henry Purcell (ORGAN)
      • Trumpet Voluntary: Jeremiah Clarke
      • Trumpet Voluntary: Jeremiah Clarke (ORGAN) 
       

      Gathering Songs

      Following the procession, a Gathering Song should be sung. 
      It is sung by everyone after those in the procession have reached their places. 

      • All Creatures of Our God and King: St. Francis of Assisi
      • For the Beauty of the Earth: Folliott Sanford Pierpoint 
      • Gather Us In: Marty Haugen
      • Hear us now, God and Father: Rowland H. Pritchard, John Newton, Harry N Huxhold
      • Joyful, Joyful We Adore You: Ludvig van Beethoven
      • Lift High the Cross: George Kitchin ...st john only...
      • Love Divine, All Love Excelling: Charles Wesley, Rowland H. Pritchard
      • O God Beyond All Praising: Gustav Holst  ...st john only...
      • All Are Welcome: Marty Haugen
       

      Responsorial Psalms

      Choose the text you would like,
      and the music setting will be addressed when you speak with the Music Minister. 

      • Psalm 23: Every Morning In Your Eye
      • Psalm 23: The Lord is My Shepherd
      • Psalm 33: Blessed Are We, Beloved of God
      • Psalm 33: The Earth Is Full of the Goodness of the Lord
      • Psalm 34: I Will Bless the Lord At All Times
      • Psalm 34: Taste and See
      • Psalm 103: The Lord is Kind and Merciful
      • Psalm 116: The Name of God
      • Psalm 118: This is the Day
      • Psalm 128: Blest Are Those Who Love You
      • Psalm 128: O Blessed Are Those
      • Psalm 145: I Will Bless Your Name
      • Psalm 145: I Will Praise Your Name
       

      Preparation of the Gifts and Altar

       
      The Liturgy of the Eucharist takes place in the usual manner at the Wedding Mass. 
      Members of the family, and/or friends of the wedding couple, should bring the gifts of bread and wine to the altar.  Instrumental music or a song may accompany the procession with
      the gifts.  A psalm or another appropriate song may be selected.
       
      • All I Ask of You: Weston Priory ...st john only...  
      • Ave Maria: Franz Schubert 
      • I Have Loved You: J. Michael Joncas
      • Love One Another: Bob Dufford
      • Where Love is Found: Dave Schutte     
       

       Communion Songs

      • As Grains of Wheat: Lawrence Rosania 
      • Behold the Lamb: Martin Willett 
      • Gift of Finest Wheat: Westendorf/Kreutz ...st john only...   
      • I Am the Bread of Life: Suzanne Toolan, RSM
      • One Bread One Body: John Foley, S.J.
      • One Love Released: Kevin Keil
      • Taste and See: James E. Moore or F.P. O’Brien ...st john only...      
      • Take and Eat: J. Michael Joncas
      • Take, O Take Me As I Am: Tony Alonso ...st john only...
      • Unless a Grain of Wheat: Bernadette Farrell
       

      Recessional Instrumental

       
      Following the final blessing, the wedding party usually recesses with a bright “send off”
      to the other celebrations of the day.  In certain cases, this may be a song or rejoicing;
      most often it is an instrumental selection. 
       
      • Canon in D Major: Johann Pachelbel 
      • Hornpipe (Water Song): George Fredric Handel
      • Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring: Johann Sebastian Bach 
      • Ode to Joy: Beethoven
      • Rondeau: Jean Joseph Mouret
      • Trumpet Tune: Henry Purcell
      • Trumpet Voluntary: Jeremiah Clarke
      • The Wedding March: Felix Mendelssohn
    • Here are some other great links that are definitely worth checking out!

      Theology of the Body
      For Your Marriage       

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