Bits and pieces for celebrating relationships, marriages and partnerships (PDF download)

Digital download: Prayers, reflections, poems, songs, a liturgy and practical actions to help celebrate relationships, marriages and partnerships. Taken from the book Moments of Our Nights and Days, by Ruth Burgess.

21 pages

Contents:
A family wedding blessing, by Ruth Burgess
An opening statement for a partnership ceremony or wedding, by David Coleman & Zam Walker
Three wedding/civil partnership memories and ideas, by Kes Grant, Catherine Harkin & John Harvey
Including the guests (practical action), by Chris Polhill
A wedding prayer (song – words and music), by Carol Dixon (arr. Isabel Morrison)
The perfect couple (reflection), by Jan Berry
This is your day (reflection), by Marjorie Dobson
Blessings and vows, by Stephen Wright
Love poems for a wedding, by Roddy Cowie
Love has brought you here (reflection), by Sally Foster-Fulton
You came here to make it sacred (reflection), by Sally Foster-Fulton
How I became a fundamentalist (reflection), by Andrew Foster
Blessing of a marriage (at a family gathering), by Norman Shanks
Do you realise what you’ve just said? (reflection), by Sally Foster-Fulton
No one is given away (liturgy), by Liz Delafield
Love is the circle (song – words only to be sung to the tune ‘Slane’), by Andrew Pratt
We meet at one point (a blessing), by Andrew Pratt
Life comes to us strangely (prayer), by Ian M Fraser
On their way (prayer), by Ian M Fraser
Prayer for a wedding anniversary, by Terry Garley
She who shares life with me (prayer), by Ian M Fraser
Dreams take flesh (reflection), by Jan Berry
A prayer for understanding, by James Curry
Love grows (poem), by Ruth Burgess

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