NEWMAN CATHOLIC STUDENT CENTER - NIU CHRIST THE TEACHER UNIVERSITY PARISH
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Music Selections

Christ the Teacher has liturgy guidelines to follow in order to celebrate the Sacrament of Matrimony in the Catholic Church and more specifically within the Rockford Diocese. Please use the tables below to choose your song selections. Click on the links below to listen to the music to choose your selections.  Once you have decided, complete Form 3 on the bottom of this page.  Please do so at least four months before your wedding. Contact the music director at music@newmanniu.org if you have any questions. Please also be in contact with the wedding coordinator at litugy@newmanniu.org.   

Newman Center has musicians available for hire, including singers, instrumentalists and piano accompanists. If you would like to have musicians take part in your wedding who are not from Newman, those musicians must be approved by the Director of Music. In general, there must be a musician selected from Newman.  If you have special requests for other songs, please email or call to arrange a meeting with the music director music@newmanniu.org or 815-787-7700).
The tables below contain songs permitted during the wedding ceremony.   Click on the name of the song to listen. It will open in a new window. Close that window to get back to this page. When you finish listening to the songs on this page and you have made your selections, click on the button below to complete the form and submit in your choices.  Press "Submit" when you finish.

Prelude/Alternate Hymns 
Musician's choice or other appropriate songs.

S. Back: Air from Orchestral
​Suite #3
J.S. Bach:
​Prelude in C
Handel:  Air from Water Music
The Gift of Love
Copeland: Bridal Prayer
Chapman: I will be Here
And on This Day
Haas: Bridegroom and Bride
Haas: Come and Journey With Me
Haas: Where There is Love
Haugen: Gathered in the Love of Christ
Haas: We Will Serve the Lord
Haas: Wherever you Go
Joncas: A Nuptial Blessing
West: When Love is Found
Bell: God in the Planning

Grandparents/Parents/Wedding Party Processional Music 

​Choose up to 2 songs

Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Bach: Sheep May Safely Graze
Seasons
Franck: Panis Angelicus
Pachelbel: Canon in D
Spielberg: The Promise

Bride's Processional

Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Purcell: Trumpet Tune
Clarke: Trumpet Voluntary
Pachelbel: 
Canon in D
Haydn: St. Anthony's Chorale

Repsonsorial Psalm

Psalm 24:
​I Have Loved You
Psalm 34:
Taste and See
Psalm: 103 
The Lord is Kind
and Merciful

Psalm 128:
Blest Are Those Who Love You
Psalm 145:
​I Will Praise Your Name

Preparation of the Altar (Mass Only)

God is Love
Lord of All
Hopefulness
Prayer of St. Francis
I Have Loved You
The Church's One Foundation
The King of Love My Shepherd
How Beautiful

Communion (Mass Only)

Gift of Finest Wheat
Taste and See
We are Many Parts
Now in This Banquet
You Are Mine
No Greater Love
Panis Angelicus

Prayer to the Blessed Mother (Optional)

Bach: Ave Maria
Schubert: Ave Maria
Kantor: Ave Maria
O Sanctissima

Recessional

Ode to Joy
Trumpet Voluntary
Allegro Maestoso
Trumpet Tune
Spring
Rondeau

Postlude

St. Anthony's Chorale
Trumpet Tune
Form 3 
Please complete and submit this form to select
​ your song choices during the ceremony.

Thank you for using our on-line forms to assist us in planning your wedding!
Best of luck to you and may God continue to bless your marriage!

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815-787-7770

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Office Hours

M-F: 8:30am - 5:00pm
Closed 12-1 for Mass & Lunch

Email:         officemanager@newmanniu.org

  • Home
    • Contact Us
    • History of Newman
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    • Photo Tour
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    • Rockford Diocese
  • Newman Catholic Student Center
    • Newman Center
    • Events & Calendar
    • NIK
    • FOCUS
    • Campus Housing
  • Christ The Teacher
    • Events & Calendar
    • Liturgy & Music
    • Young Adults
    • Safe Environment - Virtus
  • Sacraments
    • Baptism
    • Eucharist
    • Reconciliation
    • Confirmation
    • Marriage >
      • Wedding Preparation
      • Wedding Music Choices
      • Readings For Wedding Ceremony
    • Anointing of the Sick
    • Vocations
    • Funeral Mass Planning
  • Faith Formation
    • Adult Bible Study
    • Adult Faith Formation
    • Children's Faith Formation
    • Youth Ministry
    • RCIA
    • Eucharistic Revival
  • Ministries
    • Hope Haven
    • St Vincent dePaul Society
    • Feed my starving children
    • Communion to homebound
    • We Care Pregnancy
    • Hope for Haitians
    • Knit for the Needy
    • Bless the Animals
    • Acts of Love
    • Acts of Mercy
    • Keep it Clean
    • Thanksgiving baskets
    • Giving Tree
  • Bulletins
  • Donate