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7 responses to “Somethings Have to be Shared”

1. 

   Mimi

   July 20, 2007

   Father, bless,

   What a lovely couple. Many Years

2. 

   Athanasia

   July 20, 2007

   A very handsome man and a beautiful woman! May God grant them many, many blessed years!

3. 

   fatherstephen

   July 20, 2007

   He is a handsome young man. He fancies that he looks like me – but I’m much shorter and of much less noble countenance. I think he favors his maternal greatgrandfather – though he never saw him to make the comparison. But he is a fine young man with a beautiful bride.

   I have noticed over many years that weddings have a way of transforming, almost transfiguring young couples (as they should). The radiance I have seen surrounding that sacrament is one of the treasures of my heart.

4. 

   David_Bryan

   July 21, 2007

   Many years!

5. 

   Dolly

   July 21, 2007

   We celebrate in the celebration of your son and new daughter. Such is the power of joy, particularly in the sacrament of marriage as you have said, to transform into radiance and to reveal as radiant “just” a man–“just” a woman. Such is the power of joy to fill then spill out onto everyone present (even days afterward via cyberspace). Such is the nature of joy, that of prodigality: a lavish profusion of generosity. (One dictionary even defines it as “recklessly wasteful”–an interesting contrast to the utilitarianism referred to a few postings back. The latter clearly belongs to the world and is ultimatley indistinguishable from stinginess. The former clearly belongs to the kingdom of God and His righteousness.)

   Surprisingly, even some sectors of science have been granted the eyes to see, and thus to conclude, that human beings are creatures of joy, that our true home (identity) is joy, that the message of joy in its essence is, “I’m glad to be with you.”

   We are glad to be with you, Father, as you faithfully deliver the only sermon you know, handed to you by your Bishop, handed to him by his bishops through the ages. We are glad, by some measure, to be with your son and his beautiful bride made possible through your joy, through the lavish riches of God with us.

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   handmaidmaryleah

   July 21, 2007

   Fr. Joseph Hirsch calls the wedding, especially the feast afterwards, “a foretaste of the banquet that awaits us in the heavenly Kingdom” and one that we should be preparing for. It is wonderful imagry when it is done properly.
   May God grant them many years!

7. 

   Jake

   July 22, 2007

   I’m a new reader to your blog, and also recently married (2 months ago), so I know the joy your son and daughter-in-law have now. May God bless them richly!