Diocese of Rochester

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Acclamations During the Vows:

Celtic Alleluia (or any other well-known alleluia)

No Longer Two - Haas (GIA)

Who Calls you By Name (also known as Blessed Be God) – David Haas (GIA) 

Communion Processionals:

Amen, El Cuerpo de Christo – Schiavone (OCP)

Eat This Bread – Berthier (GIA)

Gift of Finest Wheat/You Satisfy the Hungry Heart (most resources)

One Bread, One Body – Foley (most resources)

Pan de Vida – Hurd (most resources)

Supper of the Lord - Farrell (OCP)

Taste and See (various settings including Moore, Haugen)

Ubi Caritas (Taize, Hurd, other settings)

We Have Been Told – Haas  

Sung Blessings:

A Nuptial Blessing  (May God Bless You) – Joncas (GIA; GC#870)

God Be With You  - arr. Haas (uses Day Is Done tune)

May the Lord Bless You - Grayson Warren Brown

Solos

Bridal Prayer - Roger Copeland

Come My Way, My Truth, My Life (The Call) - Vaughan Williams

Gift of Love - arr. Hopson (Early American; solo/duet)

God In The Planning (SLANE; text by John Bell)

In Love We Choose To Live (Love is patient, love is kind) - Jeanne Cotter

Love Is the Sunlight  - Haas (also can be sung to “Morning Is Broken; ” solo or hymn)

Love One Another (various composers)

Not For Tongues of Heaven’s Angels (various composers)

Old Irish Blessing - Denes Agay (WB Music)

Set Your Heart on the Higher Gifts (1 Cor) - Steve Warner (WLP We Celebrate)

Simple Gifts (Shaker)

Song of Ruth (various composers)

Ubi Caritas (Taize, Hurd, others)

We Will Serve the Lord (GIA)

When Love Is Found (O WALY WALY; text: Brian Wren)

Where There Is Love - Haas

Wherever You Go (various settings)

Where You Go - Mary David Callahan (Benedictine Sisters of Erie, PA)

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Music Collections:

The Diane Bish Wedding Book - Gentry Publications, 1980 (organ collection,

      not too bad but some arrangements are awkward)

Treasury of Early Organ Favorites - ed. by E. Power Biggs

Wedding Music Vol. I – IV - David N. Johnson, 1970 (Augsburg Publishing House, MN,

      organ collection but includes some trumpet parts)

The Essential Wedding Book -  ed. Jerry Ray, Alfred Publishing, 1990 (piano

collection. Not bad arrangement of Ode to Joy, some trumpet parts, piano arr. of the two Ave Maria’s which are not great but at least in the same book.)

Wedding Classics for Piano Bk. 1 - ed. Chesterton,Lorenz, 1987 (decent arrangements

      of basic trumpet tunes; Chopin, Satie, etc.; prelude filler; Book II is less useful )

Wedding Music Vol. I-IV - David N Johnson, Augsburg Publishing

      (Preludes, processions and recessions, contains instrumental parts too)

The Classical Wedding - Sue Mitchell Wallace/John Head, Hope Publishing

      (For Solo Trumpet and Organ)

The Joyous Wedding - Sue Mitchell Wallace/John Head, Hope Publishing

      (For Solo Trumpet and Organ)

The Wedding Soloist, Hope Publishing  

Planning Resources:

Celebrating Marriage: Preparing the Wedding Liturgy – A Workbook for Engaged

      Couples - Paul Covino ed with Larry Madden, Elaine Rendler & John

Buscemi, Pastoral Press (good theology, info on readings, sample programs)

Gift and Promise: Customs and Traditions in Hispanic Rites of Marriage – Raul

      Gomez, OCP, 1997.

Guidelines for Multicultural Celebrations – Mark Francis, FDLC 1998.  (Suggestions for

multicultural worship which may be helpful including assistance with the spoken word and music.)

Handbook of Church Music for Weddings – Mary Beth Kunde-Anderson & David

      Anderson, LTP, 1992 (fuller version of “Your Wedding Music,” current

      guidelines distributed to diocesan musicians)

Interfaith Wedding Ceremonies: Samples and Sources - Dovetail Publishing,

      Kalamazoo, Michigan

Jumping the Broom:  The African American Wedding Planner – Harriette Cole, Henry

      Holt & Co., NY, 1995.  (Much of this resource is very secular but Chapter 1 Marriage

      Via the Ancestors is an excellent resource.) 

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“Marriage As a Sacrament of the Church” – J. M:Ichael McMahon and Paul Covino,

      Pastoral Music,  April-May 1996 p.19-22

Marriage Celebrations in Mexican American Communities – Tim Matovina, “Liturgical

      Ministry 5, 1996 p. 22-26.

“No Wonder Thye Choose the Music They Do! – David Haas, Pastoral Music, 

      April-May 1996 p.26-35

“Musicians:  Offer Pastoral Care to the Engaged Couple” – Dolores Clerico, SSJ,

      Pastoral Music, April-may 1996.  p. 36-38.

The Nubian Wedding Book: Words and Rituals to Celebrate and Plan an African-

American Wedding – Ingrid Sturgis.   (A collection of historical writings, rituals, celebrations;, vows, toasts, and wedding ideas for using African traditions in your wedding.)

Our Catholic Wedding - Video (28 min.) LTP, 2001  (Excellent resource!)

Primero Dios: Hispanic Liturgical resource – Mark Francis and Arturo Perez-Rodriguez,

      LTP, 1997.  (Hispanic popular religious customs in inculturated celebrations)

Scripture at Weddings: Choosing and proclaiming the Word of God - Graziano and

Nancy Marcheschi  LTP

When Love Is Found: A Wedding Liturgy Preparation Resource for Couples, Music

      Ministers and Pastors -  David Haas/JeanneCotter, GIA Publications, 1993.

(Excellent resource; incl. music tapes, and piano/guitar/vocal; includes planning sheet, sample programs, excellent source of psalmody.)   

Worship Across Cultures:  A Handbook - Kathy Black, Abingdon Press, 1998.  (A

valuable resource offering a “roadmap” of actual worship practices of twenty different ethnic and cultural groups including Filipino, Hispanic, Korean, Chinese, Haitian, Vietnamese, and Native American.  Each section includes information on the liturgical space, prayer forms, readings, preaching and sacramental practices including

weddings).

 

To reach the major Catholic music publishers:

GIA Publications, Inc., Chicago IL  1-800-442-1358 website: 

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