Father Aquinas Gilbo has given a very thorough and eloquent explanation of etymology, of accompaniment.

All I have to say is by way of a commentary.

I'm always intimidated by any priest named Aquinas.

My patron is St. George.

He was a soldier, he was not a thinker, he just slew dragons,

and I suppose that's my vocation to a certain degree.

I've always wanted to teach in a university.

God had other plans.

I spent a lot of time in universities on the receiving end.

Then I stopped when I reached the point of diminishing returns.

We have a crisis in universities today, and it's only going to be the recovery of the university

that's going to help bring our culture back

to its rational senses.

However, the parish is the heart of our culture,

of our Christian culture.

And I've often thought that every pastor is a teacher.

But teaching in university is rather like fishing in an aquarium.

Teaching in a parish is more like teaching in an ocean.

Much more adventurous and you never know what you're going to catch.

So what I have to say about accompanying people in a regular marriage

is from a pastoral perspective.

We are in crisis in every way in our culture,

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