The other day, Rocco posted about St. Louis’s Fr. John Jay Hughes, whose homilies have become the stuff of legend. The good padre now has started posting them to a blog. One of my readers sifted through some of the homilies and came across this wonderful nugget:

“The Lord came to me more recently, and spoke to me, in words of a woman, a daily communicant, who said to me after many years of married life: “Father, when you walk up to the altar on your wedding day, you don’t see the Stations of the Cross.” Preaching recently to a group of men preparing for ordination as permanent deacons, and to their wives, I quoted those words. As I did so I could see heads nodding all over the chapel.”

Brilliant and true. And a great anecdote, I think, for a wedding homily.