"Grace flows through wounds."
"The free exchange of consent properly witnessed by the Church establishes the marriage bond. Sexual union consummates it - seals it, completes it, perfects it. Sexual union, then, is where the words of the wedding vows become flesh."
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Source: Christopher Wood (1981). “The Pre-Raphaelites”, Studio
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