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Congratulations! We at Holy Cross Family of Parishes celebrate your engagement with you!  You have our prayers and support.

To start this wonderful journey to becoming husband and wife, complete the form with your basic information.  Someone from our staff will then contact you to begin the planning process.

Planning Your Catholic Wedding

From “yes” to “I do” and beyond. Learning how to build a foundation for a strong, life-long marriage. What's important in a nuptial Mass.

Marriage Preparation

What you need to know and complete to plan for your special day. Click here for all your requirements and responsibilities.

Prayer for a Married Couple O God, who in creating the human race willed that man and wife should be one, keep, we pray, in a bond of inseparable love those who are united in the covenant of Marriage, so that, as you make their love fruitful, they may become, by your grace, witnesses to charity itself. We ask this through Christ, our Lord. Amen.

sacrament of holy matrimony

Sacred Scripture begins with the creation and union of man and woman and ends with "the wedding feast of the Lamb" (Rev 19:7, 9). Scripture often refers to marriage, its origin and purpose, the meaning God gave to it, and its renewal in the covenant made by Jesus with his Church.  Man and woman were created for each other.

By their marriage, the couple witnesses Christ's spousal love for the Church. One of the Nuptial Blessings in the liturgical celebration of marriage refers to this in saying, "Father, you have made the union of man and wife so holy a mystery that it symbolizes the marriage of Christ and his Church."

The Sacrament of Marriage is a covenant, which is more than a contract. Covenant always expresses a relationship between persons. The marriage covenant refers to the relationship between the husband and wife, a permanent union of persons capable of knowing and loving each other and God. The celebration of marriage is also a liturgical act, appropriately held in a public liturgy at church. Catholics are urged to celebrate their marriage within the Eucharistic Liturgy. 

“And he answered and said, “he who created them in the beginning made them male and female, and he also said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? 
Matthew 19: 4-5