Wedding

Congratulations on Your Engagement!

Marriage is a sacred reality for all people. Like other major life-events, celebrations, blessings, receptions and religious rites that speak of significance. Catholic Christians recognize marriage as a sacrament, a sacred experience of God’s presence in human life. We believe that the human love of a married couple is a unique expression of God’s love for God’s People. In this light, marriage takes on the new dimension of a divine vocation—a call from God to share a unity of life and love with this particular person for the rest of my life.

The Church expects that those who marry in the Church are persons who practice their faith regularly and who participate in the life of their parish community, most especially at Sunday Eucharist (Mass). If regular participation at the Sunday Parish Liturgy is not currently in your life, you are encourage to prayerfully consider attending Mass together as a way to prepare for your married life.

Preliminary arrangements should be made in person as soon as possible (at least six months, and preferably a year in advance). Such time is needed to assure that all requirements and preparations are made in a timely fashion.

In choosing the date and time for your wedding, please be aware that the prayers, readings, music and the overall tenor of the celebration cannot be separated from the seasons and feasts of the Liturgical Year (e.g. a wedding during Lent should still in some way reflect this penitential season). Once the date has been set, it will be necessary for each of you to contact the church where you were baptized to have current certificates sent to the parish for our permanent records attesting that you have celebrated the sacraments of initiation and indicating that you are free to marry in the Church.

The official policy of the Archdiocese of Boston requires that all couples planning a wedding participate in an approved program of Marriage Preparation.
A listing of various Marriage Preparation programs in the area is located on the Archdiocese of Boston website, https://www.bostoncatholic.org/familylife/transformedinlove . It will then be up to you to register and meet the requirements of the particular program. This preparation, along with your meetings with the priest or deacon who will preside at your wedding, forms the heart of the formal preparation for marriage.

Please fill out the form bellow to make an initial request for the Sacrament of Marriage.

We will get back to you with more details and confirming the availability once we have reviewed the request. 

Please contact us if you have any questions at
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