Catholic Cuisine

A thought about marriage…starting with some comments on the parable of the wise and foolish bridesmaids…

“Today it is the accepted thing for the bride to be a little bit late for the ceremony.  The groom is in the church waiting hopefully and the bride often comes five or ten minutes late.  But in the old style Jewish wedding it was not a fashionable five minutes, sometimes they would wait for hours for the groom to arrive and it is suggested that there were two reasons for that, neither of them particularly edifying.