KarMel
Scholarship 2007
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“My Wedding” By |
Desciption of Submission: The actual ceremony for my
wedding to happen on april 11th this year
Joseph and Robert enter the sanctuary as The
Prayer by
Carol Bayer Sager is sung by Larry Duplechan and Greg Harvey
INTRODUCTION – REV. Elder
Troy Perry
Friends, we are here this day to share with Robert
and Joseph a most important moment in their lives. They have learned to know
and love each other and now they have decided to live their lives together.
Through their love they lift up their lives and lift up this community of
friends and family to join them in making this commitment to each other and to
you present here today.
SCRIPTURE
I Corinthians 13:4-13
Love is patient and kind,
love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not
insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at
wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things,
believes all things, hope all things, endures all things. Love never
ends; as for for prophecy, it will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease;
as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our
prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass
away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I
reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we
see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then Ishall
understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope love
abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Hallelujah – By Leonard Cohen sung by Joe Warner
REMINDER OF LOVE'S
RESPONSIBILITY – Nick Golden
All of us know that you are
deeply in love. But beyond the warmth and glow, the excitement and romance,
what is love, really? Real love is caring as much about the welfare and
happiness of your partner as about your own. Real love is not possessive or jealous;
it is liberating; it sets you free to become your best self. Real love is not
total absorption in each other; it is looking outward in the same direction
together. Love makes burdens lighter, because you divide them. It makes joys
more intense because you share them. It makes you stronger, so that you can
reach out and become involved with life in ways you dared not risk alone.
Reflections – Rev. Elder Troy Perry
Truly, Madly, Deeply –written by
REV.TROY PERRY
Joseph, do you find
within you a love that unites you and Robert? (I DO).
Do you find within you
the courage to resist the many deaths by which love can die? Are you willing to
love Robert into his unique fullness, and to take the risk and the
vulnerability of love again and again?
(I WILL).
Joseph, do you promise to
allow this love flourish and exist in the community that you serve? (I Do)
Robert, do you find
within you a love that unites you and Joseph? (I DO).
Do you find within you
the courage to resist the many deaths by which love can die? Are you willing to
love Joseph into his unique fullness, and to take the risk and the
vulnerability of love again and again?
(I WILL).
Robert, do you promise to
allow this love flourish and exist in the community that you serve? (I Do)
Now
Friends, family, and
loved ones you are here as witnesses and to join in this celebration. Do you promise to nourish and help Robert and
Joseph as they live out their Love faithfully and truthfully for each other and
within this community? (We Do)
INTRODUCTION TO THE WEDDING
VOWS (Rev. Elder
Robert and Joseph, as you
have affirmed your willingness to join together, and as this community has
offered to support you in this commitment I now invite you to make the promises
of your covenant together.
THE WEDDING VOWS
JOSEPH - Robert, I now join you to share all of life with
you, its responsibilities and freedoms; its joys and sorrows, to love and care
for you. As we continue to grow in our love for each other, our God and our
community I shall adore you and listen, learn, teach and speak the truth to you
and seek to live each day anew as a gift of God, as long as we both shall live.
ROBERT- Joseph, I
now join you to share all of life with you, its responsibilities and freedoms;
its joys and sorrows, to love and care for you. As we continue to grow in our
love for each other, our God and our community I shall adore you and listen,
learn, teach and speak the truth to you and seek to live each day anew as a
gift of God, as long as we both shall live.
THE GIVING OF RINGS
Rev. Elder
These rings are the
symbol of the vows taken, a circle of wholeness; the perfect form. These rings
mark the beginning of a long journey together filled with wonder, surprises,
tears, laughter, celebrations, grief and joy. May these rings glow in
reflection of the warmth and the life which flow through the wearers this day!
Joseph "I give you this ring as I give you my love and
faithfulness."
Robert “I give you this ring as I give you my love and
faithfulness.”
PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
AND BLESSING
Joe Armetta
Our Creator, we rejoice with
Robert and Joseph. We thank you for their families and friends who have helped
to shape their lives. We thank you for the opportunities and events which
challenge them to their life's work. We thank you for their ever-deepening
relationship and their decision to share the future together. We pray that we
may be responsible witnesses to them enabling them to share their lives for the
sake of all people.
“Accidentally in Love” By Counting Crows is sung by The MCCV Choir as
Joseph and Robert go to robe for communion
Words of
assurance
Joseph –
Today we stand
together as a community we are aware of our weaknesses and our strengths. We are conscience that at times we have
chosen ourselves over other people and God has called us to realize that we are
forgiven, that we are Loved, and that we can break out
of all self centeredness and extend God’s compassion to one another and to
those who are hurting. Be assured of God’s
unconditional love for us. Amen
Preface
Robert – God be with you
All – and
also with you
Robert – let us lift up our hearts
All – we
lift them up to God
Robert –
let us give God
thanks and praise
All – it
is a good and joyful thing to do
Sung
Sanctus Santo Santo Santo #793
Table
Prayers
You call us to live in the light
And freedom of your
spirit.
In our need of Liberation
You sent Jesus Christ to be
The way the
truth and the Life.
To free us from our divisions
By inviting us
to love our neighbor.
To free us from our selfishness
By encouraging us to live freely
Of what we have received freely:
Our talents,
our riches, our time.
Rev. Robert Goss - Creator we remember your Son’s
Great sign of
love for us.
On the night before he suffered
In order to make us free
He celebrated a meal of life and
hope.
He took bread blessed and blessed
you the great creator
He broke the bread, and gave it
to his companions saying
Take this all of you and eat it
This is my body which shall be
broken for you
Once again he gave you thanks and
praise.
He gave the cup to his friends
and said:
Take this all of you and drink.
This is the cup of liberation
A new and lasting covenant in my
blood
Which is shed for you and all
people so that they
May live free and forgiven
Do this in memory of me.
Rev Robert Goss- Creator
send your spirit upon us
So that we who are nourished at
your table
May be a
witness of your love in this world.
OUR
COMMON PRAYER – IN UNISON
Eternal Spirit, earth-maker, pain bearer, life-giver
Source of all that is and shall be
Father and Mother of us all,
Loving God, in whom is heaven;
The hallowing of your name echo through the universe!
The way of Your Justice be followed
by the people of the earth!
With the bread we need today feed us.
In the time of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials to great to endure, Spare
us.
From the Grip of all that is evil, free us.
For your reign is in the Glory of the power that is love,
Now and forever. Amen! ( from
WE
SHARE THE HOLY COMMUNION
The metropolitan community church practices as an open
Communion. This sacrament is offered to
all who seek God’s love, to all who desire to respond to Christ’s
invitation. Grape juice is used in all
the chalices. You may serve yourself the
Communion elements or asked to be served and then proceed to a server for
prayer of blessing. You may have the
communion without prayer or the prayer without communion. Please tell your server if you have a special
need.
While communion is a celebration for some, it is a time
of prayer and meditation for many people. Please be respectful of those who
like to take this time to pray or meditate by maintaining a quiet manner.
Communion song – earthen vessels by john Foley
Final Blessing – Rev. Elder Troy Perry
Know 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 one life before
you.
Go now to your dwelling
place,
To enter into the days of
your togetherness,
All
And may your days be
good, and long, upon the earth. AMEN!