Information on all wedding protocol and necessary paperwork. Click Here for online booklet on parish policies.

CEREMONY MUSIC PLANNING & SELECTION:
Daniel Kovacic, Director of Music
412-833-0031 x242
[email protected]

WEDDING COORDINATORS
St. Thomas More:
Emily Jaquay 412-551-5690
[email protected]
St. John Capistran:
Nancy Rees & Karen Greenberg
412-221-6275

MISSION PROJECT LOVE
Jackie Schratz, Marriage Ambassador
724-344-2683
[email protected]

Marriage Ministry at our Parish

www.diopitt.org
Baptism Papers | marriage reguirements | premarriage classes | spiritual help

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, in you we contemplate the splendor of true love;
to you we turn with trust.
Holy Family of Nazareth,
grant that our families, too, may be places of communion and prayer, authentic schools of the Gospel and small domestic churches.
Holy Family of Nazareth,
may families never again experience violence, rejection, and division;
may all who have been hurt or scandalized find ready comfort and healing.
Holy Family of Nazareth,
make us once more mindful of the sacredness and inviolability of the family, and its beauty in God’s plan.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, Graciously hear our prayer. Amen.

Wedding Feast of Cana

The First Miracle that Jesus preformed, at the start of his ministry, was at a wedding. The union of a man and women joined with the Holy Sprit - where two become one in a covenant with God, to live a sacrament of marriage gaining the rewards of eternal life in Heaven. The example of this married union, Man and Woman joined with God here on earth, reflects the Holy Trinity in Heaven - three persons in one God.

Catholic couples live out this mircale everyday in the vocation of Holy Matrimony with graces and mercy given by this sacrament. The goodness of the marriage union is indissoluble - "What God has joined let no man put assunder".

Remember this was the FIRST miracle from Jesus. He displayed his obeidance to his Mother Mary, the celebration of the Union of a Man and a Woman in Holy Matrimony, and the act of creating an abundance of wine from life giving water.

Wedding Feast of Cana = New life, New Love, New Beginnings

The Wedding Journey

God designed the First Union between Adam and Eve - a design that replicates Love itself over and over, and whose total outpouring of that Love populates the earth with families that continue a walk with Christ. Christ raised this union to the dignity of a Sacrament that is a partnership between a man and women, sealed in heaven as a Covenant with God. God himself is the Author of Marriage. In the Catholic Church, sacraments are a physical sign of the spiritual reality of God's love for his people.

It is through the celebration of the marriage sacrament that couples together receive sanctifying grace to battle the storms of life to gain their heavenly reward.

FREE, TOTAL, FAITHFUL, FRUITFUL

A valid Catholic Marriage consists of Four Elements:

1. "FREE" - Couples are free/unattached and able to marry in full canonical form.
2. "TOTAL" - Couples give all of themselves /present for the exchange of consent.
3. "FAITHFUL" - In full consent and a promised intention to marry for life.
4. "FRUITFUL" - Couples faithfully love one another and are open to children gifted from God.

Project Love Walk

 8-12 months before your Wedding

CALL Resurrection Parish at 412-833-0031 or 412-221-6275

a. Contact: Schedule a meeting with Parish Priest to complete paperwork/set Wedding Date/receive Ceremony Planning Guide

 b. Contact: Mission Project Love to start your engaged walk

Jackie Schratz, Marriage Ambassador
724-344-2683 | [email protected]

c. Contact: Resurrection Parish Director of Music Ministries

Daniel Kovacic, Director
412-221-6275 x242 | [email protected]
Jon Runion, Associate Director
412-221-6275 x244 | [email protected]

 7-8 months before your Wedding   

a. Take the online F.O.C.C.U.S course, $25/couple (access code needed and will be emailed)
b. Meet to review F.O.C.C.U.S questions with Marriage Ambassador, Jackie Schratz
c. Continue Engaged Love Walk with book study and discussions in one-on-one meetings
d. Wedding Coordinator will contact you via email to provide you with information for the Ceremony
Church Wedding Guidelines

 6-8 months before your Wedding   

a. Pittsburgh Diocese required Marriage Preparation
Learn more & Register here
b. JOY-filled Marriage weekend at Resurrection Parish
Registration TBD
c. Meet the assigned mentor couple that will journey with you during and after your marriage preparation

 5-8 months before your Wedding   

a. Organic Married Fertility Courses

1. During the Marriage Preparation weekend, determine the method that will work best for you as a couple https://www.modernfertilitycare.org
2. Learn more about the methods and choices:

• Couple to Couple: Dave & Maria Phelps [email protected]
• Billings Ovulation Method: Dolores Shipe [email protected]
• Creighton: Susan Loughnane [email protected]
• Marquette Method: Dr.Kristin Lin 412-685-3373 | Fr. Jim Holland [email protected]

 1-2 months before your Wedding   

a. Contact Wedding Coordinators to finalize rehearsal dates & times and ceremony needs

• St. Thomas More: Emily Jaquay 412-551-5690 [email protected]
• St. John Capistran: Nancy Rees & Karen Greenberg (contact the parish office for contact information, 412-833-0031 or [email protected]) 

 3-4 weeks before your Wedding   

a. Final meeting with Parish Priest
b. Touch base with Wedding Coordinators  
c. Plan time to attend the sacrament of Reconciliation as a couple

Catholic Bishops: www.usccb.org Marriage Resources | www.usccb.org Marriage Preparation | Called to the Joy of Love PDF

Marriage Questions: www.catholic.com

Grow a Marriage: www.ForYourMarriage.org

World Wide Marriage Encounter: www.wwme.org

Marriage Repair: www.Retrouvaille.org