17 September

The same people who mock this sort of sacred ritual would replace it with having a few beers. I’ve been to weddings where people were on the beers even during the service. If you drop the prejudices though, everything about this, the rituals, the symbols, the colours, the glorious choral arrangement, the psalm, speaks of thousands of years of human lives, of suffering and the wisdom that came from it, compressed into a moment. Gives me goosebumps.