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Fr. Roger J. Landry
\nSt. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral, Manhattan
\nNuptial Mass for Thomas Zachary Horton and Courtney Lee McEachon
\nExtraordinary Form
\nJuly 15, 2017
\nEph 5:22-33, Mt 19:3-6<\/p>\n

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To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily,\u00a0please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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The following text guided today’s homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The beautiful event we\u2019re celebrating today has a long prehistory, one that goes back beyond Zach\u2019s proposal to Courtney last September 10 on the beach of Palm Island, Florida, with Zach\u2019s unintentionally finishing a capella<\/em> the refrain of George Strait\u2019s country classic, \u201cCheck Yes or No.\u201d It goes back well before their first date, September 25, 2015, in Central Park, to greet Pope Francis as he passed through blessing them and the tens of thousands beside them. It extends far beyond the first time they met, at an Intercollegiate Studies Institute conference in Richmond, Virginia, in 2013, or the time they met again two years later, on the Feast of the Transfiguration in 2015, at a party to watch a presidential debate. It goes back even further than when their parents, Thomas and Janet, Joseph and Cynthia, got the joy-filled news to expect them two-and-a-half decades ago. The prehistory to their wedding extends back to even before God said \u201cLet there be light.\u201d And to understand the significance and beauty of this day, we need to see where it fits into God\u2019s plan for them and for the world.<\/p>\n

When Jesus, in the Gospel we just heard, was asked about the nature of marriage, he took it back to the \u201cbeginning,\u201d when God made them \u201cmade them male and female.\u201d In the Book of Genesis, at the beginning of time, when God created Adam, Adam had God all to himself in the garden. All of creation had been made for him to govern. He was perfectly in right relationship with God. Even though he seemed to have everything one could ask for, something \u2014 more specifically, someone \u2014 was missing. And after God had said in the first six phases of creation, \u201cIt was good,\u201d \u201cIt was good,\u201d \u201cIt was good,\u201d \u201cIt was good,\u201d \u201cIt was good,\u201d \u201cIt was good,\u201d and with the creation of the human person, \u201cIt was very good,\u201d God finally thundered, \u201cIt is not good\u2026for man to be alone.\u201d So he created Eve, a fitting partner, symbolically out of his side, to show that they stand side-by-side, equal, before him. When Adam saw her, he exclaimed, \u201cFinally this is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh!,\u201d a Hebrew idiom saying that they shared strengths and weaknesses. As the text ends, as Jesus reiterates in the Gospel, we learn that this is the reason why a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife and they become one flesh in love. The upshot of the Creation account is that God, who is love, has created the human person in his image and likeness \u2026 in love and for love. Since no one can love in a vacuum, God could not be solitary, because there needed to be a Lover and a Beloved, and in God the love between them was so strong as to take on personality. In creating the human person, therefore, God created not just a \u201chim, male and female\u201d but a \u201cthem,\u201d a communion between man and woman, whose love for each other could be so strong as to \u201cmake love,\u201d to generate new life, as a fruit of their loving communion of persons. From the first marriage of Adam and Eve, to your marriage today, Zach and Courtney, marriage was created by God to be a sacrament of love, to help you to grow to be more and more like God and at the same time more fully human. Today you have not only received a Sacrament. Today you have become a Sacrament, a visible sign, as St. John Paul II used to say, pointing to the invisible reality of the Trinitiarian loving communion of persons. You have been called, chosen and commissioned by God to be not just a living reminder of the fruitful, faithful, indissoluble love of God, to reflect efficaciously in your own marriage Christ\u2019s love for his bride the Church, but to preach that Gospel of human love in the divine plan, in words and in body language, for as long as you both shall live.<\/p>\n

St. Paul, in today\u2019s first reading take from his Letter to the Ephesians, gives you challenging advice about how to put the truth of Christian marriage into practice. He says to young couples of every age, \u201cBe subordinate\u201d or subject, or submissive, \u201cto one another out of reverence for Christ.\u201d See the image of Christ in each other. Be like Christ for each other. Seek to love one another as Christ has loved you. He then gets specific. He tells husbands, \u201cLove your wives even as Christ loved the Church and handed himself over for her to make her holy.\u201d Zach, Christ who calls you to love Courtney in this way, will give you the strength you need to do it, to love her by laying down your life for her in ways big and small, ordinary and extraordinary, from showing up on time or even a little early to being willing to be crucified to save her life in this world and forever. St. Paul tells wives, \u201cBe subordinate to [your] husbands as to the Lord.\u201d In other words, Courtney, try to love Zach with the fervor with which you love Christ. Be patient with him. Compliment and encourage his poetry. Inspire him in his vocation to lay down his life by your loving receptivity, so that he may do so not as a burden but with joy.<\/p>\n

What you have done today in getting married here at this beautiful, historic St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral is a courageous and counter-cultural act. Today, so many are afraid of making a commitment \u2014\u00a0especially a commitment that is for better or worse, richer or poorer, sickness or health, all the days of one\u2019s life. Seeing so many relationships break down, many millennials today prefer to keep their options open, they refuse to entrust their future to another, they seek to receive some of the comfort and benefits that come from relationships that in many outward ways resemble marriage but without giving themselves totally to what God desires and true love entails. Many others are confused about what marriage is, with some thinking it\u2019s just romantic symbolism, or a piece of paper, or a temporary union for as long as two shall love, or a changing reality whose meaning can be defined or redefined by the parties or the culture or the courts. You\u2019re making a public act, in contrast to the zeitgeist, that marriage means something<\/em>, and something essential to human happiness and flourishing. And you\u2019ve been strengthened to do this by the great marriage preparation courses you received in Preston Hollow, Texas, and East Amherst, New York, in the schools of marital love of your parents, whom today not just you but the whole Church thanks in helping you get ready for today\u2019s beautiful reality. Today you\u2019re professing that you\u2019re entering into not a contract but a covenant, a sacred commitment not jut to each other but to God, consecrating your love in a special way within the love of the God who created you, brought you together, and who today has himself made a sacred commitment to you to accompany you for richer or poorer, better or worse, in sickness and health all your days. You\u2019re publicly professing your faith that you desire not just to make the other happy, but to be God\u2019s instrument to help make the other holy. You\u2019re avowing that the gift you ultimately want to give each other is not merely a beautiful ring, or the exchange of last name, or even the gift of yourself, however total; rather, you\u2019re publicly affirming that that you are seeking to give God<\/em> to each other, to help the other grow in God\u2019s image and likeness. You\u2019re professing that you want your bond truly to be a holy matrimony, one that will lead you, hand-in-hand, we pray, down the nave of a sanctuary far more beautiful even than St. Patrick\u2019s for a Nuptial Mass and Banquet that will know no end.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s why it\u2019s so fitting that immediately after the exchange of your marriage vows, you and all of us are now celebrating this Nuptial Mass. There\u2019s great meaning to the fact that over the altar here in this Cathedral \u2014 like in so many of the most historic Churches in Christianity \u2014 there\u2019s an exquisite baldachin. The early Christians used to illustrate the reality between marriage and the Mass in their architecture, covering the altars with a canopy just like ancient beds were covered, to communicate that the altar is the marriage bed of the union between Christ the Bridegroom and his Bride, the Church. Catholics believe that it\u2019s here on this altar that we, the Bride of Christ, in the supreme act of love, receive within ourselves, the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus, the divine Bridegroom, becoming one-flesh with him and being made capable of bearing fruit with him in acts of love. This is the means by which Christ will regularly renew you, Courtney and Zach, in the indissoluble one flesh union he has formed of you today. This is the way by which you will receive within Christ\u2019s love for you and become more capable of sharing that love with each other. This is the channel Jesus provides to strengthen you to continue in your courageous and even counter-cultural witness to the Sacrament of Marriage in its fullness. Today around this marriage bed of Christ\u2019s union with the Church and with you, inspired by your faith, your family, your friends, so many fortuitous visitors to St. Patrick\u2019s this afternoon, and all the angels and saints join me in praying that the Lord who has begun this good work in you and brought you here to this altar will nourish your sacred vocation and bring it to completion. We ask the Lord never to stop blessing you with his holy, spousal love and, through the way that you share that love with each other, never to stop blessing us all. Praised be Jesus Christ!<\/p>\n

The readings for today’s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

A reading for the Epistle of St. Paul to\u00a0the Ephesians<\/strong><\/p>\n

Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior of the body. As the church is subordinate to Christ, so wives should be subordinate to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her to sanctify her, cleansing her by the bath of water with the word, that he might present to himself the church in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. So [also] husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one hates his own flesh but rather nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. \u201cFor this reason a man shall leave [his] father and [his] mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.\u201d This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and the church. In any case, each one of you should love his wife as himself, and the wife should respect her husband.<\/p>\n

The continuation\u00a0of the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some Pharisees approached him, and tested him, saying, \u201cIs it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatever?\u201d He said in reply, \u201cHave you not read that from the beginning the Creator \u2018made them male and female\u2019 and said, \u2018For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh\u2019? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being must separate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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