Marriage Prayers Blessings

7/30/2019 Marriage Prayers Blessings

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World Peace

Marriage BlessingReadings about marriagefrom many religions and traditions,with blessing prayers and pledges

Universal Peace Federation


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PrayerLord, make us instruments of your peace.

Where there is hatred, let us sow love;

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is discord, union;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

Where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that we may not so much seek

to be consoled as to console,

to be understood as to understand,to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;

And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. - St. Francis of Assisi


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On MarriageYou were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.

You shall be together when white wings of death scatter your days.

Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness,

and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another but make not a bond of love:let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.

Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.

Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,

even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.

For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

And stand together, yet not too near together:

for the pillars of the temple stand apart,

and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow. - Khalil Gibran


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Biblical Wisdom

For this reason a man shall leave his

father and his mother, and be joined to

his wife; and they shall become oneflesh.Genesis 2:24

Matthew 19:5-6


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Jewish Wisdom

From every human being there rises a

light that reaches straight to heaven,

and when two souls that are designedto be together find each other, their

streams of light flow together and a

single, brighter light goes forth from

their united being.

Bal Shem Tov


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Christian WisdomThough I speak with the tongues of men and angels, but have no love, I

have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I

have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all

knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove

mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. Love suffers long and is

kind. Love does not envy. Love does not parade itself, is not puffed up.Love rejoices in the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things,

hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But where there

be prophecies, they shall fail; where there be tongues, they shall cease;

where there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part,

and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then

that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spoke asa child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became

an adult, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass,

darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know

even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, love, these

three; but the greatest of these is love. - 1 Corinthians 13


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Islamic Wisdom

Among His signs is that He created

spouses for you among yourselves that

you may console yourselves with them.He has planted affection and mercy

between you.

Quran 30.21


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Chinese Wisdom

When two people are at one in theirinmost hearts, they shatter even thestrength of iron or bronze.

And when two people understand eachother in their inmost hearts, their wordsare sweet and strong, like the fragrance

of orchids.I Ching


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Jewish Blessing You are blessed, Lord our G-d, the sovereign of the world, who created everything for his

glory.

You are blessed, Lord our G-d, the sovereign of the world, the creator of man.

You are blessed, Lord our G-d, the sovereign of the world, who created man in His image, in

the pattern of His own likeness, and provided for the perpetuation of his kind. You are

blessed, Lord, the creator of man.

Let the barren city be jubilantly happy and joyful at her joyous reunion with her children. You

are blessed, Lord, who makes Zion rejoice with her children.

Let the loving couple be very happy, just as You made Your creation happy in the garden of

Eden, so long ago. You are blessed, Lord, who makes the bridegroom and the bride happy.

You are blessed, Lord our G-d, the sovereign of the world, who created joy and celebration,

bridegroom and bride, rejoicing, jubilation, pleasure and delight, love and brotherhood,

peace and friendship. May there soon be heard, Lord our G-d, in the cities of Judea and in

the streets of Jerusalem, the sound of joy and the sound of celebration, the voice of a

bridegroom and the voice of a bride, the happy shouting of bridegrooms from their weddings

and of young men from their feasts of song. You are blessed, Lord, who makes the

bridegroom and the bride rejoice together.

You are blessed, Lord our G-d, the sovereign of the world, creator of the fruit of the vine.


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Christian Blessing

May the love of God be above you

to overshadow you,

beneath you to uphold you,

before you to guide you,behind you to protect you,

close beside you and within you

to make you able for all things,

and to reward your faithfulness

with the joy and peacewhich the world cannot give

neither can it take away.


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Old English Blessing

May your joys be as bright

as the morning,

your years of happinessas numerous as the stars in the heavens,

and your troubles but shadows

that fade in the sunlight of love.


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Irish BlessingMay the road rise to meet you,

may the wind be always at your back.

May the warm rays of sun shine warm upon your face,

the rains fall soft upon your fields.May green be the grass you walk on,

may blue be the skies above you.

May pure be the joys that surround you,

may true be the hearts that love you.May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings.

May God be with you and bless you;

may you see your children's children.


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Native American Blessing Now you will feel no rain,

for each of you will be shelter to the other.

Now you will feel no cold,

for each of you will be warmth to the other. Now there is no more loneliness for you,

for each of you will be companion to the other.

Now you are two bodies,

but there is only one life before you.Go now to your dwelling place,

to enter into the days of your togetherness.

And may your days be good and long upon the earth.


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Sufi BlessingMay these vows and this marriage be blessed.

May it be sweet milk, this marriage,

like wine and halvah.

May this marriage offer fruit and shadelike the date palm.

May this marriage be full of laughter,

with every day a day in paradise.

May this marriage be a sign of compassion,a seal of happiness here and hereafter.

May this marriage have a fair face and a good name,

an omen as welcomes the moon in a clear blue sky.


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Christian Pledgeo O Lord, omnipotent and eternal God, you

created man and woman in your image andblessed their union, so that each would be for

the other a help and support.o Remember us today. Protect us and grant

that our love may be in the image of thedevotion and love of Christ for his Church.

o Grant us a long and fruitful life together, in joyand in peace, so that, through your Son andin the Holy Spirit, our hearts may always riseto you in praise and goods works.


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Hawaiian Pledge

o Lord, help us to remember the time we firstmet,and the strong love that grew between us.

o Help us to apply that love in practical thingsso nothing divides us.

o We humbly ask for kind words filled with love,and for hearts always ready to ask

forgiveness, as well as to forgive.o Lord, we leave our marriage in your hands.

Amen.


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Native American Pledgeo God in heaven above, we honor all you created

as we pledge our hearts and lives together.

o We honor mother-earth and ask for our marriage to beabundant and grow stronger through the seasons;

o We honor fire and ask that our union be warm and glowingwith love in our hearts;

o We honor wind and ask we sail though life safe and calmas in our father's arms;

o We honor water to clean and soothe our relationship

that it may never thirst for love;

o With all the forces of the universe you created,

we pray for harmony and true happiness

as we forever grow young together.


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Hindu Pledgeo Sweet be the glances we exchange,

our faces showing true concord.

o Enshrine me in your heart and let one spirit dwell within us.

o You have become mine forever. Yes, we have become

partners. I have become yours. Hereafter, I cannot livewithout you. Do not live without me. Let us share the joys.

o We are word and meaning united.

o You are thought and I am sound.

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May the nights be honey-sweet for us.o May the mornings be honey-sweet for us.

o May the plants be honey-sweet for us.

o May the earth be honey-sweet for us.


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Buddhist Pledgeo We aspire to make our spiritual path the core

of our life together.

o We will help each other on the path to

enlightenment, watering the seeds of love,compassion, generosity, ethics, patience,joyous effort, concentration and wisdom ineach other.

o As we age and undergo the various ups anddowns of cyclic existence, we aspire totransform them into the path of love,compassion, joy and equanimity.


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World Peace Blessing Pledge

o To be faithful in marriage;

o To raise children and grandchildren to

be pure in preparation for marriage;o To live for the sake of others as a

couple and as a family;

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To encourage people of all races,religions, nationalities and cultures tolive as one family under God.


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For Study and ReflectionWorld Scripture:A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts

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Compiled by Joy Pople

Universal Peace Federation

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