To make a wedding booking please contact the parish office by email or phone.
Three months’ notice required
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Congratulations on your engagement and decision to enter into Catholic marriage!
Kilmore and Killyleagh Parishes will help you in your preparation to ensure that you make this serious and sacred step in your life a holy and happy one. Spiritual preparation is a key part of this special time. Frequent participation in the sacraments during this time is important, particularly weekly Mass attendance. It is also strongly recommended that you bring yourselves to the sacrament of Reconciliation during this time of preparation. The engagement period can be particularly stressful at times, and the graces bestowed on you through regular Confession and weekly Mass will be a great source of strength to help keep you focused and at peace. This spiritual direction will foster great growth and maturity for both partners.
The bride and/or groom should be registered members of our parish. A bride or groom who has moved away but whose family remains registered and supportive of the parish will be given due consideration.
Couples who are not registered members of the Parish and who have no active family ties with the parish but who wish to be married in the church can do so in limited circumstances. If the church is free on the desired date, the couple must arrange to have their own priest celebrate the sacrament and pay a fee for use of the church. Permissions must be sought and granted from the Parish Priest.
The parish in which a person grows up can have a special place in a person’s heart. And when it comes to their wedding there naturally can be a desire to return to the home parish for their wedding, more so when they live outside the parish boundaries, and have done so for a period. Couples are always welcome to return to the Church of their baptism for their marriage. I would like to draw to the attention of those who fall into that category, that the responsibility for the filling in of the Pre-Nuptial Enquiry lies with the priest of the parish in which they have residence. It is also the responsibility of the couple to bring a celebrant with them on the day to supply the wedding Ceremony. It is not the responsibility of the Parish Priest of the Parish in which the Wedding is to take place.
Getting started
The day and time of the wedding must be arranged in person by the prospective bride and groom themselves as soon as they feel called to marry. No arrangement can be made by phone or on the couple’s behalf by parents or any other party. All arrangements should be made at least six months prior to the wedding date and done prior to scheduling the wedding reception. Couples should take care to observe, in good time, all of the requirements of civil law.
This first meeting with a priest of the parish must be scheduled by calling the Parish Office , Tuesday to Thursday 2pm to 5pm
All couples must also participate in a Diocesan-approved marriage preparation course. Further information on this and all other steps will be presented during your appointment with the priest.
An excellent on-line resource to help you with your marriage preparation – including marriage catechesis, the ceremony, the booklet, married life – can be found here.
An alternative to the marriage preparation course provided by the Parish is that offered by Accord.
Kilmore and Killyleagh Parishes will help you in your preparation to ensure that you make this serious and sacred step in your life a holy and happy one. Spiritual preparation is a key part of this special time. Frequent participation in the sacraments during this time is important, particularly weekly Mass attendance. It is also strongly recommended that you bring yourselves to the sacrament of Reconciliation during this time of preparation. The engagement period can be particularly stressful at times, and the graces bestowed on you through regular Confession and weekly Mass will be a great source of strength to help keep you focused and at peace. This spiritual direction will foster great growth and maturity for both partners.
The bride and/or groom should be registered members of our parish. A bride or groom who has moved away but whose family remains registered and supportive of the parish will be given due consideration.
Couples who are not registered members of the Parish and who have no active family ties with the parish but who wish to be married in the church can do so in limited circumstances. If the church is free on the desired date, the couple must arrange to have their own priest celebrate the sacrament and pay a fee for use of the church. Permissions must be sought and granted from the Parish Priest.
The parish in which a person grows up can have a special place in a person’s heart. And when it comes to their wedding there naturally can be a desire to return to the home parish for their wedding, more so when they live outside the parish boundaries, and have done so for a period. Couples are always welcome to return to the Church of their baptism for their marriage. I would like to draw to the attention of those who fall into that category, that the responsibility for the filling in of the Pre-Nuptial Enquiry lies with the priest of the parish in which they have residence. It is also the responsibility of the couple to bring a celebrant with them on the day to supply the wedding Ceremony. It is not the responsibility of the Parish Priest of the Parish in which the Wedding is to take place.
Getting started
The day and time of the wedding must be arranged in person by the prospective bride and groom themselves as soon as they feel called to marry. No arrangement can be made by phone or on the couple’s behalf by parents or any other party. All arrangements should be made at least six months prior to the wedding date and done prior to scheduling the wedding reception. Couples should take care to observe, in good time, all of the requirements of civil law.
This first meeting with a priest of the parish must be scheduled by calling the Parish Office , Tuesday to Thursday 2pm to 5pm
All couples must also participate in a Diocesan-approved marriage preparation course. Further information on this and all other steps will be presented during your appointment with the priest.
An excellent on-line resource to help you with your marriage preparation – including marriage catechesis, the ceremony, the booklet, married life – can be found here.
An alternative to the marriage preparation course provided by the Parish is that offered by Accord.
Prayer
Lord God, from you every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. Father, you are Love and Life. Through your Son, Jesus Christ, born of woman, and through the Holy Spirit, fountain of divine charity, grant that every family on earth may become for each successive generation a true shrine of life and love.
Grant that your grace may guide the thoughts and actions of husbands and wives for the good of their families and of all the families in the world.
Grant that the young may find in the family solid support for their human dignity and for their growth in truth and love.
Grant that love, strengthened by the grace of the Sacrament of Marriage may prove mightier than all the weaknesses and trials through which our families sometimes pass.
Through the intercession of the Holy Family of Nazareth, grant that the Church may fruitfully carry out her worldwide mission in the family and through the family.
Through Christ Our Lord, who is the Way, the truth and the Life for ever and ever.
Amen.
[Saint John Paul II]
Lord God, from you every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. Father, you are Love and Life. Through your Son, Jesus Christ, born of woman, and through the Holy Spirit, fountain of divine charity, grant that every family on earth may become for each successive generation a true shrine of life and love.
Grant that your grace may guide the thoughts and actions of husbands and wives for the good of their families and of all the families in the world.
Grant that the young may find in the family solid support for their human dignity and for their growth in truth and love.
Grant that love, strengthened by the grace of the Sacrament of Marriage may prove mightier than all the weaknesses and trials through which our families sometimes pass.
Through the intercession of the Holy Family of Nazareth, grant that the Church may fruitfully carry out her worldwide mission in the family and through the family.
Through Christ Our Lord, who is the Way, the truth and the Life for ever and ever.
Amen.
[Saint John Paul II]