Another interfaith ceremony question

i think we are going to have one traditional catholic and one traditional jewish reading. for the catholic reading (that's my part), i'm pretty sure i'm going to choose the 'love is patient, love is kind, etc' reading from st. paul's gospel. not sure what fh is going to choose yet. if you have any ideas about jewish readings, please pass them on!

This is what we are doing in our interfaith ceremony:


In keeping with the spirit of love and this sacred occasion, Let us hear from the Book of Ruth 1:16

Entreat me not to leave you or to return from following you; for wherever you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people will be my people, and your God my God, where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord do so to me, and more also if even death parts me from you. This is the word of the Lord.


First Corinthians 13 is one of the most beautiful descriptions of love. Let us hear the words of St. Paul:

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is no irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

We are also doing the 7 Jewish Blessings (The rabbi said it is a tradition...)


SEVEN WEDDING BLESSINGS-SHEVA B’RACHOT

Brides and grooms have been blessed with seven wedding blessings known in Hebrew as the Sheva Berachot. They praise and celebrate God, creation, man and woman, peace and harmony and the joy of the bride and groom.

And now we are privileged to hear the hallowed words of the Sheva Berachot.


1. Blessed is the creation of the fruit of the vine.

2. Blessed is the realization that each separate moment and every distinct object points to and shares in the unity of creation.

3. Blessed is the creation of the individual.

4. Blessed is the unity and the wonder we experience as a man and a woman join to live their lives together.

5. May rejoicing resound throughout the world as the homeless are given homes, persecution and oppression cease, and all people learn to live in peace with each other and in harmony with their environment.

6. We call forth an abundance of love to envelope this couple. May they be for each other lovers and friends, and may their love partake of the same innocence, purity, and sense of discovery that we imagine the first couple to have experienced.

7. We highlight today joy and gladness, bride and bridegroom, lovers and soul - mates, delight and cheer, love and harmony, peace and companionship. May we all witness the day when the dominant sounds throughout the world will be these sounds of happiness the voices of lovers, the sounds of feasting and singing. Praised is love. Blessed be this marriage.

We are having the interfaith ceremony in a church. We are having 3 readings... One old testament, one new Testament and the pray of the faithful.

The priest recommeded that it would be nice if we could have at least one jewish and two catholic people do the readings.