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WEDDING: ADDRESS TO THE COUPLE
Words spoken to the wedding couple
{Name 1} and {Name 2}, your marriage is intended to join you for life in a relationship so intimate that it will change your whole being. It offers you the hope, and indeed the promise, of a love that is true and mature. To attain such love you will have to commit yourselves to each other freely and gladly for the sake of a richer and deeper life together. Seek to become one in mind and heart as well as one in body. Let God be your helper and guide
{Name 1} and {Name 2}, out of the wild exuberance of creation, you two have appeared - each of you unique, distinctive, and wondrously human. You have chosen to journey together in the remaining moment of time that is yours. From this day forward, you are to become one unit of life.
You are both called to a new existence. For the whole universe has come to you in the form of this particular person who has a unique love for you and is beloved by you.
What then is love? Love is sensing the other as a person. This must now be your mode of living. Love is receiving the feelings, thoughts, and intentions of the other into your own understanding. Love is faithfulness over the long haul.
In life's day to day challenges, in the tension of differences, in the joy of being warmly human, in all the experiences of life, love must be faithful.
Love must share all the areas of life: body, mind, and spirit, until you are truly united with each other - one whole person united in joy with another whole person. Love is sharing together, talking together, listening together, until the harmonies of what it means to be fully human pulse also in you. In this love, let the giving love of God in Jesus be your example and strength.
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