Theme · Catholic Wedding Readings
Love That Endures
Romantic love alone cannot carry a marriage across the decades. These readings name the deeper love that does: the love that is "stern as death," that "many waters cannot quench," that holds even when "neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities" can separate it. They are some of the most beautiful and the most consoling words in all of Scripture, and they speak directly to couples who want their marriage rooted in a love larger than feeling alone.
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Readings on this theme
- First Reading (Old Testament)Song of Songs 2:8-10, 14, 16a; 8:6-7aStern as death is love
- Second Reading (New Testament)Romans 8:31b-35, 37-39What will separate us from the love of Christ?
- Second Reading (New Testament)1 Corinthians 12:31-13:8aIf I do not have love, I am nothing
- Second Reading (New Testament)1 John 4:7-12God is love
- Gospel ReadingJohn 15:12-16Love one another as I have loved you
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