The Two Shall Become One: A Review of Peter Kwasniewski’s Treasuring the Goods of Marriage, by Greg Cook

There was a marriage the other day in a rural corner of America. It occurred at a Catholic chapel situated on a knoll overlooking farm fields, a woodlot, and a cemetery. On that warm July day, the bride and groom, both children of large faithful families, stood before the congregation of men, women, and children, and plighted their troth. The bride, a local girl beautiful in her hand-sewn white dress and veil, and the groom, an aeronautical engineer from Australia tall and manly in blue, heard the priest (the bride’s cousin) speak of Catholic marriage: duty, sacrifice, love, sanctification, and raising children for eternal life with God. The numerous babies and toddlers there cried their affirmation.

Then the priest went before the altar and the schola began the Introit: “Deus Israel con ungat vos” (May the God of Israel join you together). Except for a few additional prayers, it was the Mass, but a nuptial Mass. …

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