Within the supernatural order, the Church, after the way of our blessed Lord, takes hang of this everlasting personality of affection within the order of nature and elevates the promise “I do” to the honor of a sacrament.
The affection this is all the time expressing itself on the subject of the everlasting, and articulating itself in such words as “until the sands of the wasteland develop chilly,” the Church seizes and refines via discovering an emblem of affection extra abiding nonetheless than even the sands of the wasteland. She is going to essentially the most non-public, everlasting, and unbreakable union of affection the arena has ever identified — specifically, the affection of Christ for human nature — and right through the solemnity of the nuptial Mass reminds the younger couple that they’re to like one any other with the similar indissoluble love with which our blessed Lord liked the human nature that He took from the womb of the Blessed Mom.
That love which wants to specific itself on the subject of the everlasting, the Church fashions at the nice prototype of the wedding of God and guy within the Incarnation of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. When God veiled the bleak terror of His glory, descended into the flesh-girt paradise of Mary, and assumed human nature, He assumed it, now not for a secular lifestyles…
