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Acts 10:44-48

As many of you know, at the end of next week I am going to England to preside at the wedding of my niece Katherine and her fiancé Michael.  I’m really excited about it, and I’ve been poring over the Church of England marriage ceremony online, so that I’ll look as if I know what I’m doing!  I haven’t married anyone for quite a few years, and it was certainly one of the joys of being a parish priest.  I have always understood Holy Matrimony as a sacrament: that God’s Holy Spirit comes down upon two individuals, and through a deep mystery, makes them one.  In the words of the Church of England rite, “The couple shall be united with one another in heart, body and mind.”

They are changed.  God’s Spirit has the power to change us.  As a sign of this change, couples often change one or the other’s surname, and wear a ring of their finger.  I’m no longer who I was.  I have been changed. Read More