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Thread: Thanksgiving for Marriage
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gannet
Apprentice
# 13025
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Any suggestions for readings/poems for a Thanksgiving for Marriage service (celebrating 15 years of marriage)?
Thanks
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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The Episcopal Prayer Book (U.S.) recommends the following for weddings, so they should be appropriate for any celebration of a marriage:
Genesis 1:26-28 (Male and female he created them)
Genesis 2:4-9, 15-24 (A man cleaves to his wife and they become one flesh)
Song of Solomon 2:10-13; 8:6-7 (Many waters cannot quench love)
Tobit 8:5b-8 (That she and I may grow old together)
1 Corinthians 13:1-13 (Love is patient and kind)
Ephesians 3:14-19 (The Father from whom ever family is named)
Ephesians 5:1-2, 21-33 (Walk in love, as Christ loved us)
Colossians 3:12-17 (Love which binds everything together in harmony)
1 John 4:7-16 (Let us love one another for love is of God)
Psalms 67, 127, and 128.
Matthew 5:1-10 (The Beatitudes)
Matthew 5:13-16 (You are the light...Let your light so shine)
Matthew 7:21,24-29 (Like a wise man who built his house upon the rock)
Mark 10:6-9,13-16 (They are no longer two but one)
John 15:9-12 (Love one another as I have loved you)
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Oscar the Grouch
Adopted Cascadian
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Originally posted by Lietuvos Sv. Kazimieras:
Responsive reading of The Song of Solomon? ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
How about a dramatised version??
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Faradiu, dundeibáwa weyu lárigi weyu
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Lietuvos Sv. Kazimieras
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Originally posted by Oscar the Grouch:
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Originally posted by Lietuvos Sv. Kazimieras:
Responsive reading of The Song of Solomon?
How about a dramatised version??
Thought the same thing myself! ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
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Augustine the Aleut
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Originally posted by Oscar the Grouch:
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Originally posted by Lietuvos Sv. Kazimieras:
Responsive reading of The Song of Solomon?
How about a dramatised version??
Where are the Mimes for Jesus when we need them?
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gannet
Apprentice
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Thanks for the suggestions, some more practical than others but fun none the less. Went for 1 John 4:7-16 (Let us love one another for love is of God) and a piece by Wendell Berry which seemed appropriate,
“The meaning of marriage begins in the giving of words. We cannot join ourselves to one another without giving our word. And this must be an unconditional giving, for in joining ourselves to another we join ourselves to the unknown. We can join one another only by joining the unknown. We must not be misled by the procedures of experimental thought: in life, in the world, we are never given two known results to choose between, but only one result that we choose without knowing what it is....
Because the condition of marriage is worldly and its meaning communal, no one party to it can be solely in charge. What you alone think it ought to be, it is not going to be. Where you alone think you want it to go, it is not going to go. It is going where the two of you – and marriage, time, life, history, and the world – will take it. You do not know the road; you have committed your life to a way.'
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Offeiriad
Ship's Arboriculturalist
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Just sticking my nose in to celebrate the fact that you having this Thanksgiving - pastorally very important, and worth doing well.
In my last post I was asked to do a Thanksgiving and Rededication after 19 years of marriage. I and the couple fielded all sorts of 'why not wait until 20 years?'-type questions, but we knew that the subscript was the triumphant saving of their marriage from the brink of divorce.
We had a wonderful service, made all the more poignant in retrospect by the fact that I later conducted the funeral of the wife, who died suddenly a month before their 20th anniversary.... ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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