All people, but especially married couples, and particularly Alex and Jessica, must decide to love, honor, and keep each other, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, until parted by death. Husbands and wives must be willing to sacrifice themselves for each other. The total self-giving necessity in marriage must be constant and faithful, and it is fruitful. Marriage is not a party, it is not a feast, not a filming, and not a parade. Jessica and Alex are today stating before us who represent society and before Almighty God that they will to live according to God's Holy Word and ordinance.
Marriage is a union which, like all Sacraments, has two aspects - one physical, the other spiritual.
We thus have the rings and words and feast afterwards representing the physical, and the uniting of Jessica and Alex into a new being, a couple whose first act together today will be receipt of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Holy Eucharist, reflecting the spiritual. The courtship was the fun and easy part, for then Jessica and Alex could be free. Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful. Amen Click here to get home, or here to get to sermon listing.