Amidst all the Sturm und Drang of Synod 2015,
something genuinely new in the life of the church began, and
it shouldn't escape our notice. For the first time in two
millennia, an entry in the liturgical books will now read, on
the appropriate day,
"Saints Louis and Zélie Martin, spouses" - a happy
addition to "martyr," "confessor," "bishop," "religious,"
"pope," etc., in the pantheon of vocations to sanctity.
Spouses: a married couple, together on the tapestry that hung
from the central loggia of St. Peter's before, during and
after their canonization Oct. 18; a man and a woman, a dad
and a mom, who were the parents of a saint, the "Little
Flower," and in whose married life mutual sanctification took
place by cooperation with God's grace.
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