Wedding
Advice & Articles
 

What Many Brides and Grooms First Ask Us

Ten Tips to Help You Talk to Your Honey About Money

Wedding Planning 101

Honeymoon Travel Tips

Catholic Ceremonies: Roman rite vs. Independent Rite.

Wedding Readings
 

    1 Corinthaians 13,1-8, 13

    A Reading from the Holy Gospel    according to St. Matthew (1&2)

    Sermon Written By God

    A Wedding Prayer

    Blessing For A Marriage

    Five Simple Rules to be Happy

    Gospel Readings for the Rite of    Marriage (2)

    I Wish For You

    Love

    The Apache Wedding Blessing

    The Colors of the World

    The Paradox of Our Time In History

    Alternative Wedding Readings

    Ceremony Reading Suggestions

    Sermon By God

    Sermon By God II

    Sermon By God III

 

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Please call the office at 540-856-3223 to make these arrangements that are comfortable to you and your partner to plan and Officiant your Ceremony.

 
 
 
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Most of the weddings we perform are nondenominational. Traditional Ceremonies are available as well, regardless of background, faith or lifestyle. All denominational faiths are welcomed and can be performed. We travel to the Ceremony site. Create your own Ceremony and Vows —we are very flexible and accommodating! It's your "BIG DAY"!

Out of everything that goes to make up your wedding day, it will be the ceremony that you will remember most! For those couples who want their ceremonies to be expressions of the sacred reality of their love, I can be helpful.

It is my privilege to help all couples who want a spiritual expression of their love to be prominent in their wedding — whether that bride and groom be Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, any other faith, or no particular faith.

God has blessed you with the gift of love, and that overrides anything else . . . whether you are of different faiths, whether you have been married before, or other particular circumstances of your life.

Most Reverend Michael K. Carroll, OSP, DD

 



 
 
 

Please download the information for planning your wedding ceremony,
read it thoroughly and then follow the instructions.

Wedding Ceremony:
1. Your Big Day!
2. Ceremony Contract & Registration Requirements
3. Ceremony A - Basic/Military Honors Wedding Ceremony
4. Ceremony B - Standard Wedding Ceremony
5. Ceremony C -Traditional Wedding Ceremony
6. Elopements

 


 
 
 


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St. Patrick Abbey
American Catholic Church, Independent Rite
P. O. Box 900
Basye, VA 22810-0900

Kenneth Warne, Sub-Deacon, Administrator E-mail
Bishop Michael Carroll, Wedding Officiant
E-mail
St. Patrick Abbey Web site: www.saintpatrickabbey.org
St. Patrick Abbey Office Telephone: (540) 856-3223
St. Patrick Abbey Fax Line: (206) 350-4550
Bishop Carroll’s Direct Line: (540) 335-6987
Sub Deacon Kenneth R. Warne's Direct Line: (540) 335-6669

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