by His Grace Bishop Anthony, The Word, June 2015
When you have your wedding photo framed and hung in your home, you probably put that picture in the most expensive and stylish frame you can a fford. You do not think of the cost, so much as the memory of the event it preserves and the feelings experienced. In this way, and with all family pictures, something more than paper and ink and color are present for us. It is the sacrament of the moment that counts. Material things become the conveyor or vehicle for an invisible and spiritual reality that is far more precious to us than the expense demanded to express it. Yet, if these special times in our lives are not adorned with the beauty and expense of frames and colors, we might cheapen them, and turn something that was wonderful into a common, forgettable and ordinary thing. The beauty of the material attracts us to the lasting value of the experience which that package re-presents.
