Anyone just pick their readings etc. from the together for life book

agrech Posted: Nov 17, 2003 03:36 PM

Anyone just pick their readings etc. from the together for life book

i jsut got the book, when we finished precana and I am confused about 2 readings, the responsorial psalm and the prayer of the faithful: it says sung, read by do you have a singer and a reader or one or the other. I can not believe how many people avtually need to be involved, its overwhelming. please advise

BillysBride Posted: Nov 17, 2003 03:41 PM

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Basically you need to have 2 readers I believe...one for new testament and one for old....the other stuff can be read instead of sung, so you don't need a million people partaking in the readings.

firegal Posted: Nov 17, 2003 03:42 PM

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You choose. I'm choosing to have the prayer of the faithful read by one of our guests (making 3 readers total). If you choose to only have 2 readers, I believe the church singer can do it for you.-

Betty Posted: Nov 17, 2003 03:45 PM

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Yep, we did We picked 3 I think.

The Prayer of the Faithful was read....We eidted it a little, making it more personal

agrech Posted: Nov 17, 2003 03:51 PM

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Okay so we have someone reading the;

old testament
New Testament
prayer of the faithful

and then the singer would do the responsorial psalm?

pschica Posted: Nov 17, 2003 03:53 PM

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we did two from the new testament yesterday - our priest told us we could pcik whichever we wanted.....he's an old family friend and really cool though - then we had the singer do the resp psalm....

Betty Posted: Nov 17, 2003 03:55 PM

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Yep. That's exactly what we did....We also added the Hands Prayer that the Deacon read

butterfly20 Posted: Nov 17, 2003 04:14 PM

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were having 2 readers for the readings and a reader for the prayer of the faithful, well edit it too(at my sisters the prayer included for my grandma in the hospital and our grandfathers who had past)

M&M2004 Posted: Nov 18, 2003 08:43 AM

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It really depends on the church. If I want I can choose to do only one reading (from the New Testament) since I am only having a ceremony. The readings from the old testament and the prayer of the faithful are optional. The responsorial psalm is sung by the cantor and we were given four choices to choose from that weren't in the Together for life book. You can double check with your precana couple or talk to whom ever is doing your service for clarification.

septbride Posted: Nov 18, 2003 09:07 AM

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We had 3 readers. We also did the Prayer of Couple that DH and I read together (we got quite a few compliments on this).

tanbride Posted: Nov 18, 2003 09:13 AM

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We had 3 readers- 1 for the First Reading fron the Old Testament, 1 reader for the Second Reading from the New Testament and then a reader for the Prayer of the Faithful - we had our church singer sing the Responsorial Pslam.