We do not even remember today that marriage is, as everything else in “this world,” a fallen and distorted marriage, and that it needs not to be blessed and “solemnized”—after a rehearsal and with the help of the photographer—but restored. This restoration, furthermore, is in Christ, and this means in his life, death, resurrection, and ascension to heaven, in the pentecostal inauguration of the “new aeon,” in the Church as the sacrament of all this.
