Corey and Mollyann wedding

Corey never grew up with any faith.

Mollyann went on a few come and see's with some orders, even staying for an extended time with the missionaries of charity, "a vocation within a vocation"

reminded me of Teresa's "Call within a call."

Does Corey even know what he's gotten himself into?

You think you’re called to marriage with an ordinary girl, but she’s not, God has asked her to be here and to be married to you.  I guess that makes you soul mates? but definitely after you make the vows.

What will God ask of you in this marriage? The vows are the minimum.

You don’t know what you are getting into, but that’s ok, you have to trust God and not in yourself.  To trust the other, not in yourself.  To be faithful to the other, that is what fidelity means, not just being unchaste.

What does a life look like that is totally belonging to God?

Speaking with MollyAnn the other day, I’ve been perplexed because I try and promote young women to be nuns/sisters, and you wanted that, all your life, and then you get there and feel God call you out. “I have something else in mind.” When I met Corey, I knew, that voice, my Lord, said, “this one.”

Therefore, Corey, you were chosen by God. I don’t know what will become of you Corey, but achieving salvation?! I have high hopes, because God is entrusting one of Gods Precious daughters to you. Why? Live your life in such a way that says “thank you for this gift. I didn’t create this situation, it is beyond me, I didn’t conceive of something as beautiful as marriage and marriage to this one!”

And isn’t that the point of this whole endeavor? To become thankful? To say, I don’t deserve this. Even I, what do I deserve? Prison… hell. But Christ has saved me, I get to celebrate days like this, and days that aren’t so pleasant as well, full of work and sadness sometimes, but I get to speak to you of the God who created us as an act of love and then calls us to participate in His life, in His story, to live in heaven. But you aren’t ready yet. So I give you marriage. This ordinary enough thing, that most people do, is a divine institution, heaven on earth, that will instruct us on how to be like Christ, how to love someone else more than your very life, to generate kids, to love them more than your own life, and to know that you didn’t do this all on your own, that you did it with your spouse… your friend, because of God… with God. That you both don’t deserve to be this happy and beautiful today, but in this valley of tears, this life, even here God breaks through to kiss us, to behold us, to remind us that what He has for us is far greater than what we could have ever hoped for or created all on our own.

“My friend, are you upset because I am generous?”