"'If only I had been there with my Franks!' said the warlord Clovis when he heard the story of how Jesus, innocent of all wrong, had been condemned to death and crucified.
"It's easy to be the hero in your own imagination. Eleven men eager to
get out of the jury room and get on with their business vote to
convict, but you, more attentive than they are, hold out and demand that
they examine the evidence again. You do what you have sworn to do. Most
of the men in town want you, the marshal, to leave while you can before
the bad men arrive by train at high noon the next day. A few men
promise to stand by you, but one by one they fall away, and they beg you
to get out. But you stay, and you do what you have sworn to do. You are
the president of a nickel-and-dime lending company, left to you by your
father. You don't like the work, and you've had to set aside your
dreams of world travel. Your father's inveterate enemy, seeking to
swallow you up, offers you a lucrative job; it would mean no more
worries about how to pay the bills and no more worries about your old
home in constant disrepair. You are sorely tempted, but you refuse. You
do what you have sworn to do.. . .
"Consider the one sacred vow that the great majority of people will make: the marriage vow. . . ."
In a recent commentary, Anthony Esolen, Professor and Writer in Residence at Northeast Catholic College in Warner, New Hampshire. reflected on the solemnity of the marriage vow.
To access Professor Esolen's complete post, please visit:
Crisis Magazine: Treat the Marriage Vow with the Solemnity It Deserves (19 JUN 19)
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