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Catholic Wedding Music
This page provides
general information about Catholic wedding ceremony music whether it is
about wedding music played during a Catholic wedding Mass or wedding
music performed during a nuptial blessing not involving the distribution
of the Holy Communion.
Many brides and grooms to be inquire whether
there is a specific kind of music that can be labeled as “Catholic
wedding music”? The answer is probably not. The issue of
Catholic wedding music is not so much about a specific kind of wedding
music but rather about how the Catholic Church understands the
celebration of marriage within a church sanctuary. Catholic wedding
music varies from one country to another since Catholic brides and
grooms represent hundreds of different cultures, languages and local
traditions. Catholic wedding music played in church somewhere in Mexico
might be never admitted in a Catholic parish in Germany. But even in
the context of the United States what is standard and acceptable wedding
music in one parish might be reject somewhere else. In general Catholic
engaged couples should ask their parish priest, organist or music
director about the wedding ceremony music they would like to have or are
supposed to have. For the Catholic Church wedding music should reflect,
allude to, or at least harmonize with Church’s theology of marriage.
Wedding ceremony is the solemn beginning of marriage taking place in the
sanctuary where the believers gather to celebrate Christian mysteries of
faith. Thus the wedding ceremony and the wedding music is not the issue
of the bride and the groom, their families and guests but rather
something involving the tradition of the Catholic community within which
the bride and the groom have chosen to celebrate their wedding. In the
Catholic perspective marriage should be reflecting the love of God for
his people and the love of Christ for his bride, the Church. It is a
spiritual and mystical perspective. Marriage is seen as something
sacred, a sacrament, that is, a visible sing of invisible grace that God
bestows upon the male and female who have decided to enter into
permanent conjugal relationship. Not all kinds of music will reflect
and render the tone of this perspective. For the details about Catholic
wedding ceremony music contact your local parish long before your
scheduled wedding ceremony.
Full texts
of selected wedding readings in English, Spanish and Italian along with other wedding ceremony resources are
available on our affiliated website
Wedding Ceremony Center |
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