You're not compatible, you are complementary
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· 12 viewsWedding homily...sort of for Jon and Katherine Zubieta
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Just another day in Paradise by Phil Vasar
The kids screaming, phone ringing, Dog barking at the mailman bringing, That stack of bills - overdue, Good morning baby, how are you? Got a half hour, quick shower, Take a drink of milk but the milk's gone sour, My funny face makes you laugh, Twist the top on and I put it back, There goes the washing machine, Baby, don't kick it, I promise I'll fix it, Long about a million other things, Well, it's ok. It's so nice It's just another day in paradise, Well, there's no place that I'd rather be, Well, it's two hearts, And one dream, I wouldn't trade it for anything…Just another day in Paradise
I just don’t understand how people without God or life, can relate to the song, but yet when everything is happening and doesn’t feel like you’re living in paradise but rather hell tell people the end to get through. But as Christians not only is this true but we also have the added benefit I would we taste the weather of the cross that we know we’re supposed to be there.
Jon Francisco means Freedom in Gods grace
Katherine means purity
Marriage speaks of Christ and His Church, and the wedding day was the cross.
Christ poured out His all, even the water, though He thirsted, He loved more, and He loved to the point of giving all.
A mother/wife once told me, “I’ve given him everything!”
Maybe you have, probably not, plus, what about what you have remaining yet to give, is that not included?
We sacrifice for what we love, for what we deem important.
Marriage speaks of the Union that we the bride will have with God in the Kingdom of Heaven.
It is eschatological!
It is forever.
The glory of the bride is her God, the glory of God is the bride brought to full stature
Ezekiel, you were but a girl, too young for marriage, but now, I will take you and clothe you, and you ran off after lovers, but I will take you back. So Christ came, and comes, and will come again.
Thus, this is your vocation, the sacrifices made for your family are now indistinguishable from the sacrifices made for the kingdom, for your family is the domestic kingdom, the church.
Marriage is consummated, that’s it.
“Casual sex cultural”
“It’s just whatever“
“Its a promise you make with your body whether you intend it or not” -Cameron Diaz
And what’s the promise?
The vows
I’m free, I place my faith in you and not in another, I choose this, for his good and mine, I know what this is, and maybe, God might even allow us to rear children to grow His Kingdom.
“Consumatum est”
That wasn’t nothing
Christ went freely
He was a celibate to leave no confusion about who His bride is
“I lay my life down freely, no one takes it from me”
I came that you might have like to the full…life forever
Son, behold your mother… I won’t lose what the Father has given to me
You are incapable of not losing, and messing this whole thing up, lovely as you both are, so Christ raised it to a Sacrament, so that you would have grace and be completely ordered to the most August Sacrament, the wedding banquet between heaven and earth
That which we consume, that baptismal promise we consummate with our bodies at every Mass, your first meal as husband and wife. The sign and reality, which is your strength, your identity, that when I the priest say, “this is my body, this is my blood, given for you,” tonight and until your death you will say that to each other, frequently, but especially in the conjugal act, this is my body, given up for you, both are signs, but your marriage points to Christ and His Church, It’s heavy, as is anything worth doing.
So now if the bride and groom will step forward with the witnesses…
Good Will Hunting
Call her up Romeo.
Why? So I could realize she’s not that smart, that she’s boring? This girl‘s perfect right, I don’t wanna ruin that!”
Maybe you’re perfect right now, maybe you don’t wanna ruin that. but I think that’s a super philosophy Will, that way you can go through your entire life without ever having to really , know anybody
You’re not compatible, neither of you are perfect. You have your peccadillos, but God made you, not compatible, but complementary.
Tobit reading
Lastly, why do we get married in the church? Why don’t we do just whatever? This is important because it’s not about us, it’s about God and today we consecrate our lives and your union to God. We celebrate this with you because this affects all of us, your marriage and your family affects all of us and we support that. We’re not just celebrating it, but recognizing that the union between man and wife for the procreation of kids and for your own sanctification is a good thing. Is it to know that this is what marriage does, it makes your life not about you. You give your life aaway to another and to any kids that come from this. This is how you become a saint and help the other to become a saint. By your witness faithfully being husband and wife you might remind the world that first God became man and married divinity to humanity and then he made a church and married that church and so that every time someone sees you they are reminded of the incarnation and the ongoing covenant of Christ and his Church.
This way you know, that through the trial in the struggle in the suffering, it wasn’t by your perfection and your loveliness alone that got you through the hard days, the long days, and the years. But that it was you, infused with His grace
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