"Moses and Elijah looking at the shining face of Jesus knew that the greatest glory would take place in darkness as the Lamb of God yielded His life for them, for us, for all, becoming our Heavenly Bridegroom.
So you can see why St. Paul speaks of marriage the way he does. People always mishear him – as though he said nothing than husbands are the boss and wives are the doormats. How far from what he pictures! He turns to Jesus, the Bridegroom, and to the Church, the Bride, and he takes marriage into that. So that husbands ARE crowned king of their familes – a servants crown of thorns pressed squarely down upon their heads. So that wives ARE crowned queen of their families – receiving their husbands’ service and giving him their loyalty and their love. Marriage is simply transformed – just like all of life is – when it is taken up into Jesus and seen the right way round. In every marriage where husband and wife submit together to the heavenly Bridegroom, He will take the ordinary, the trials, the suffering and the hardships and transform them into something extraordinary. He will make water into wine. And husband and wives will see His glory – the glory that shone at Cana, that Moses saw on the Mount of Transfiguration, and that shines brightest of all at Mount Calvary."
--Pr William Weedon, from an Epiphany sermon
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