The Vows

Lesson 13 of 15 · About 13 minutes

The Vows

What exactly will we promise, and what does each line mean?

Each of you takes the other, aloud and from that day on, for better or worse and for life, to love and to cherish under God, and pledges your word on it; Catholics give this consent in their own rite’s words, Orthodox Christians are crowned without a spoken vow, and any vows you write should keep the same promises.

On a patterned red and gold floor, Joseph, in a pink cloak and holding his flowering rod, reaches for the hand of Mary, in a gold gown, before a mitred high priest, with crowds, trumpeters and drummers on both sides.
Historical witnessThe Marriage of the VirginNiccolò di Buonaccorso · about 1380 · The National Gallery, London (NG1109)Public domain (PD-Art, Wikimedia Commons)

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  1. The question in front of us
  2. Part 5: The Wedding
  3. What exactly will we promise, and what does each line mean?
  4. A question, then a vow
  5. The vow, line by line
  6. Words that make a marriage
  7. If you marry in the Catholic Church
  8. If you marry in the Orthodox Church
  9. The vow in older Protestant service books
  10. Can we write our own vows?
  11. Talk it through

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