If you're looking for wedding ceremony readings for a Catholic wedding, this might just be the right one for you! Featuring one of the most frequently-quoted passages from the bible, which begins, "Love is always patient and kind...", it's suggested by Irish Catholic organisation Accord as a second reading for a wedding, which is usually taken from the New Testament. A sweet and moving rumination on the meaning of love, we think it's an ideal choice for a Catholic wedding ceremony.

Ceremony Reading for Catholic weddings: A reading from the first letter of St Paul to the Corinthians (12:31-13:8.)

Be ambitious for the higher gifts. And I am going to show you a way that is better than any of them.

If I have all the eloquence of men or of angels, but speak without love, I am simply a gong booming or
a cymbal clashing. If I have the gift of prophecy, understanding all the mysteries there are, and
knowing everything, and if I have faith in all its fullness, to move mountains, but without love, then I
am nothing at all. If I give away all that I possess, piece by piece, and if I even let them take my body
to burn it, but am without love, it will do me no good whatever.

Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude
or selfish; it does not take offence, and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people’s sins
but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.
Love does not come to an end.

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