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By Regis Martin, EWTN News, January 9, 2024
Regis Martin Regis Martin, S.T.D., is a professor of theology and a faculty associate with the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio. He podcasts at In Search Of The Still Point and his latest book, Looking for Lazarus: A Preview of the Resurrection, was released in 2021.
Marriage will be the school in which husbands learn how to love the woman he married.
It isn’t every day that a father gets to give away his own daughter. And tell me, why would he want to do that? Why surrender a beloved child to someone who could not possibly have known or loved her as he has?
Because he has hope. He is hoping that a certain man will not betray the promise made before God to love and cherish her forever. That’s why.
“Pretty thin ice,” says the skeptic. “See that it doesn’t crack wide open, plunging you and all your high-sounding words into the icy waters below.” And yet it has happened to me again and again. As recently as the week before Christmas, in fact. And with two more waiting in the wings, that makes five before I die. …
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