From the excellent blog City Father.
Getting "On With It"
We've had a variety of posts sort of ballpark on this topic, more or less, recently. Most of them have come up in the context of comparing "then and now", one of the purposes of this blog
This entry is so well done, I really can't riff off of it much. What Fr. Franco states is so well stated, that I should just leave it alone, so I'll mostly do so.
To the extent I won't, it should be noted I guess that things in the Western World are so existentially screwed up right now, it's frightening, and it's expressing itself in corrupted ways in our culture and our politics, which are an expression of our culture, so much that it threatens to destroy it, and perhaps even us. A certain getting back to the basics, or roots, seems to me to very much what is needed to be done, which one party in this contest seeks to do, but doesn't understand how to do it, or what the existential truths are, and the other seeks to eliminate it and create a bold new world which it won't succeed in doing.
I was unaware of the Rituale Romanum's "Exhortation before Marriage discussed in this text. I wish that hadn't been removed, and I wish it would return.
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