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"And when you leave the church, my daughter," he said, "do not profane
the day of your marriage by any sinful thought or act, but remember to
bear yourself as if Jesus Christ Himself were with you, as He was at the
marriage-feast in Cana of Galilee."
Then he warned me that when I entered into the solemn contract of holy
matrimony I was to do so in the full consciousness that it could not be
broken but by death.
"Whom God has joined together let no man put asunder--remember that,
too, my daughter."
Finally he said something about children--that a Catholic marrying a
person of another religion must not enter into any agreement whereby any
of her children should be brought up in any other than the Catholic
faith.
After that, and something said to my father which I cannot recall, he
gave me his blessing, in words so beautiful and a voice so sweet that it
fell on me like the soft breeze that comes out of the rising sun on a
summer morning.
"May the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob be with
you, my daughter.


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