FULL CEREMONY: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Royal Wedding

the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you God is love and those who live in love live in God and God lives in them in the presence of God Father Son and Holy Spirit we have to gather to witness the marriage of Henry Charles Albert David and Rachel Megan to pray for God's blessing upon them to share their joy and celebrate their love getting married is a gift from God in creation through which husband and wife can know the grace of God. It is given that as man and woman grow together in love and trust, they will be united with each other in heart, body and mind, as Christ is united with his bride, the church, the gift of marriage unites the husband and the wife in the delight and tenderness of sexual love.

Union and joyful commitment until the end of their lives is the basis of family life in which children are born and raised and in which each member of the family, in good times and bad, can find strength, company and comfort and grow to maturity in Marriage for love is a way of life sanctified by God and blessed by the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ with whom we celebrate our

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s in Cana of Galilee. Marriage is a sign of unity and loyalty that we must all uphold and honor. It enriches society and strengthens the community. no one should go into this a little more selfishly, but with reverence and responsibility in the eyes of Almighty God.

Harry and Megan must now enter into this way of life, each will give their consent to the other and make solemn vows and in token of this they will do so. each one gives and receives a ring we pray with them that the Holy Spirit will guide and strengthen them so that they can fulfill God's purposes for their entire earthly life together first. I must ask anyone present who knows a reason why these people cannot legally marry to declare it now Aryan Megan the vows they are about to take must be made in the presence of God who is the judge of all so He knows all the secrets of our hearts, therefore, if any of you know a reason why you cannot legally get married you must declare it now Harry I will and with you Harry and Megan's families and friends support and defend them in their marriage now and In the years to come as we stand, let us pray for Harry and Megan God our Father from the beginning you have blessed creation with abundant life, pour out your blessings upon Harry and Megan that they may come together in mutual love and fellowship in holiness and mutual commitment.

We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your son who is life and reigns with you. in the unity of the Holy Spirit one God now and forever my beloved speaks and tells me get up my love my beautiful and come away for now the winter has passed the rain is over and gone the flowers appear on the earth the time to sing has come and The voice of the turtledove is heard in our land, the fig tree puts out its figs and the vines are in bloom, they give fragrance, arise, my love, my beauty, and come, put me like a seal on your heart, like a seal on your arm, because love is strong as the death fierce passion like the grave are flashes of flashes of a furious flame many waters cannot quench love nor floods can drown it if one offered for love all the riches of his house he would be completely despised and now in the name of our loving God, liberating and life-giving, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Amen from the Song of Songs of the Bible, put me like a seal on your heart, like a seal on your arm, love is as strong as death, passion fears like the grave its flashes are flashes of fire a furious flame many Waters cannot quench love nor can floods drown it the late Dr. Martin Luther King once said in that quote that we must discover the power of love, the redemptive power of love, and when we do, we will make this old world a new world. Dear love, it's the only way there is power in love, don't underestimate don.

Don't even sentimentalize it too much, there is power, power in love, if you don't believe me, think about the moment you first fell in love, the whole world seemed to center around you and your loved one, well this power, power in love, not just in its romantic form. forms, but any form of love, there is a certain sense in which when you are loved and you know it, when someone cares about you and you know it, when you love and you show it, it really feels good, there is something right about that and there is one the reason for the reason has to do with the source we were created by a power of love and our lives were made and are meant to be lived in that love that is why we work we are here ultimately the source of love is God himself the source of all our lives there is an old medieval poem that says where true love is found God Himself is there the New Testament says it like this beloved let us love one another because love is from God and those who love are born of God and know God those who do not love do not know God why for God it is this power in love there is power in love to help and heal when nothing else can there is power in love to lift up invigorate but nothing else there will be power in love to show us the way to live put me like a seal on your heart a seal on your arm for love is as strong as death but but love is not just about a young couple now the power of love is shown by the fact that we are all here two young people fell in love and we all introduced ourselves, but it is not just for and for a young couple that we rejoice, it is more than the fact that on one occasion a lawyer asked Jesus of Nazareth to summarize the essence of the teachings of Moses and and he went back and searched the Hebrew Scriptures to Deuteronomy of Leviticus and Jesus said: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind and all your strength.

This is the first and Great Commandment and the second. it's like loving your neighbor as yourself and then in Matthews version he added that he said about these two the love of God has been trying to tell the world that love your neighbor and as you go love yourself you know that Someone once said that Jesus started the most revolutionary movement in all of human history, a movement based on God's unconditional love for the world and a movement that requires people to live that love and, in doing so, change not only their lives but the very life of the world itself. about some power real power power to change the world if you don't believe me right there were little slaves in America's antebellum self who explained the dynamic power of love and why it has the power to transform they explained it this way they sang a spiritual even in the midst of their captivity there is someone who says there is a balm in Gilead a healing balm something that can make things right there is a balm in Gilead to heal the wounded oh there is a balm in Gilead to heal the sick soul and one of the things actually explains why they said if you can't preach like Peter and you can't just tell him the love of Jesus how he died to save us all this way of love is the way of life they got that he died for save us all he didn't die for nothing he could obtain Jesus did not obtain an Honorary Doctorate for dying he did not obtain anything from it he gave his life he sacrificed his life for the good of others for the good of the other but the well-being of the world for us that is what It is love no, it is not so fresh and so focused it can be sacrificial and in doing so it becomes redemptive in that way of a selfish and sacrificial redemptive love that changes lives and can change this world if you don't believe me just stop and clean to imagine think and imagine well we can imagine a world where love is the way imagine our homes and families when love is the way imagine neighborhoods and communities where love is the way imagine governments and nations where love is the way imagine business and commerce when love is the way imagine this tired old world when love is the way when love is the way selfless redemptive sacrifice when love is then no child will go to bed hungry this world anymore when love is the way when we will let justice flow like a mighty current and righteousness like a group in constant flux and love will be the way poverty will become history when love will be the way the earth will be a sanctuary and love It is the way we will leave our swords and shields at the riverside to study war, no more when love is the way there is plenty of room for all of God's children because when love is the way we truly We treat each other well as if we were really family when love is the way we know that God is the source of all of us and we are brothers and sisters children of God brothers and sisters it is a new heaven a new earth a new world a new human family and let me tell you something old Solomon was right in the Old Testament, that is the fire that you are stationed in and with this I will sit, we have to marry them all, the French Jesuits.

Shundown was possibly one of the great minds, the great spirits of the 20th century Roman Catholic Jesuit priests, the scientists. A mystical scholar in some of his writings said that, both from his scientific training and from his theological training, some of his writings have said like others that the discovery, invention or use of fire was one of the great of the great scientists. and technological. The discoveries throughout human history of fire largely made human civilization possible. Fire made it possible to cook food and provide sanitary ways of eating that reduced the spread of disease in its time.

Fire made it possible to heat a warm environment and therefore made possible human migration around the world is a possibility even to colder climates fire made it possible there was no Bronze Age without fire there was no Iron Age without fire there was no Industrial Revolution without fire the advantages of science and technology depend largely on human capacity and capacity to receive fire and for the human good, anyone arrives here today in a car, a car, not their heads, if they they did. I guess I know there were some carriages, but for those of us who arrived in cars, the fire controlled checkpoints made it possible.

I know the Bible says and I believe that Jesus walked on water, but I have to tell you that I did not cross the Atlantic Ocean to get here. Control the fire and that plane brought me here. Fire allows us to text and tweet. and email, Instagram, Facebook and socially being dysfunctional with each other fire makes all of that possible and the basis our God said that fire was one of the greatest discoveries in all of human history and then went on to say that the humanity ever harnesses energy. of fire again if humanity captures the energy of love it will be the second time in history that we discover fire dr.

King was right, we must discover love, the redemptive power of love and when we do, we will make this old world a new world, my brother, my sister, God loves you, God bless you and may God sustain us all in those almighty hands of love when the night has come and the earth is a star and is the only one like Tracy, don't be afraid, no, I won't be afraid, as long as you are, stay by my side, stay by my side, stay by On my side, the mountain awaits, noisy, without a shelter. a tear while you put up with Harry and Megan.

Now I invite you to join your hands and make your vows in the presence of God and his people. I Harry take you Megan I Harry take you Megan to be my wife to be my wife to have and hold on to have hold on from this day forward from this day forward for better for worse for better for worse for richer for poorer for richer for poorer in sickness and in health in sickness and in health love and cherish love and cherish until death do us part until death do us part according to the holy law of God according to the holy law of God in the presence of God the presence of God I make this vow I make this vow I Megan take you Harry I Megan take you Harry to be my husband be my husband have and hold have and hold from this day forward from this day for better for worse for better for worse for richer for poorer for richer for poorer in sickness and in health in ascending health mm and appreciate love and appreciate until death do us part until death do us part according to his little according to the holy law of God in the presence of God in the presence of God I make this vow I make this vow Heavenly Father for your blessing these rings strike Harry and Megan as a symbol of endless love and faithfulness to remind them of the vow and covenant they have made this day through of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen Megan I give you this ring Megan I give you this ring as a sign of our marriage as a sign of our marriage with my body I honor you with my body my honor you everything that I am I give you everything that I am I give you and everything that I have and everything I have I share with you I share with you within the love of God within the love of God Father Son and Holy Spirit Father Son and Holy Spirit Harry I give you this ring Harry I give you this ring as a sign of our marriage as a sign of our marriage with my body I honor you with my body I honor you everything that I am I give you everything that I am I give you and everything I have and everything I have I share with you I sharewith you within the love of God within the love of God Father Son and Holy Spirit Father Son and Holy Spirit in the presence of God and before this congregation Harry and Megan have given their consent and have made marriage vows to each other, they have declared their marriage joining hands and the giving and receiving of rings, therefore, I proclaim that those whom God has joined together are husband and wife, may no one separate them, blessed are you, Lord our God, for you have created joy and gladness, pleasure and delight, love, peace and companionship, pour out the Abundance of your blessings upon Harry and Megan in their new life together, let their love for each other be a seal on their hearts and a crown on their heads, bless them in their work and in their companionship, awake and asleep in joy and sadness in life. and in death finally in your mercy take them to that banquet where your saints delight forever in your heavenly home we ask this through Jesus Christ your son our Lord who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit one God now and forever God Father God Son, God, Holy Spirit, bless you, preserve you and keep you.

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y grant you the riches of his grace so that you may please him in body and soul and by living together in faith and love you may receive the blessings of eternal life faithful Holy God and eternal source of life and source of love we thank and praise Thank you for bring Harry and Megan to this day and we pray for them, Lord of life and love, may their marriage be life-giving and enriched for life by your presence and strengthened by your grace, may they bring each other comfort and confidence the each other in fidelity and trust.

Lord of life and love, may the hospitality of your home bring refreshment and joy to all around you, lovely great flutes and neighbors in need, and embrace those in need. Lord of life and love, may they discern in your word the order and purpose of their lives and may the power of your holy spirit guide them in truth and defend them in adversity Lord of the life and love that they will nourish. to his family with devotion to see his children grow in body, mind and spirit and finally reach the end of their lives with a happy heart an enjoyment and dissipation of heaven let us pray with confidence as our Savior taught us who is against us because temptation God May the Holy Trinity make you strong in faith and love, defend you on all sides and guide you in truth and peace and the blessing of Almighty God.

May the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit be among you and remain with you always good friends.