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class="col-article__title"> <h1 > <div class="rich-text "> Marriage Makes Men of Us </div> </h1> </div> <div class="col-article__date"> <time>July 1, 2025</time> </div> <div class="col-article__subtitle"> <span > <div class="rich-text "> The measure of true manhood lies in the willingness to give up one’s life out of love </div> </span> </div> <div class="col-article__byline"> <span>By Joseph Pearce</span> </div> <div class="col-article__date-mobile"> <time>July 1, 2025</time> </div> <section class="col-article__featured "> <figure class="image-block-wrapper"> <picture><source srcset="https://files.kofc.org/images/assets/DomesticChurch_JulyAug2025_FYM.jpg/4d7b88c05e7f11f0bc4012dfa2e3f244?width=900&height=506" /><img src="https://files.kofc.org/images/assets/DomesticChurch_JulyAug2025_FYM.jpg/4d7b88c05e7f11f0bc4012dfa2e3f244?width=900&height=506" alt="The Three Caskets (oil on canvas) by Robert Alexander Hillingford (1825-1904), Christie’s Images via Bridgeman Images" loading="eager" class="img" decoding="auto" width="900" height="506" /></picture> <figcaption class="caption"> <div class="rich-text "> The Three Caskets (oil on canvas) by Robert Alexander Hillingford (1825-1904), Christie’s Images via Bridgeman Images </div> </figcaption> </figure> </section> <section class="col-article__content-rich-text"> <div class="score-rich-text-block default default"> <div class="content-area "> <div class="rich-text "> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Good literature</span> <span class="s3">is like a mirror that can reveal to us who we really are, deep down, in a spiritual sense. It shows us our virtues and our vices. It shows us who we should be and who we shouldn’t be.</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s3">One of the best mirrors of marriage in literature is <em>The Merchant of Venice</em> by William Shakespeare. At the beginning of the play, Bassanio is shown to be a foolish young man who has wasted his money on loose and reckless living. Now, however, he wants to marry Portia, who is not merely beautiful but also wise and virtuous.</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s3">In order to win Portia’s hand in marriage, Bassanio must pass the test of the caskets. Those who choose the gold or silver caskets want to marry for selfish reasons, motivated by pride or greed. They are not worthy to wed Portia. The one who is worthy is he who chooses the lead casket, which reminds us of the lead casket we’ll be laid in when we die. This is because marriage requires dying to oneself for the sake of one’s beloved. This is the “no greater love” Christ speaks of, in which the bridegroom lays down his life for his bride.</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s3">For as long as we are like the foolish Bassanio, who lives recklessly in pursuit of the passing pleasures of self-gratification, we will not be the bridegrooms we are called to be. To win his bride’s hand in marriage, Bassanio must become the man he is called to be. </span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s3">For most of us, it takes marriage to make a man of us, which is to say that it takes a woman to make a man of us — and not just a woman, but a wife; and not just a wife, but a family. It is a delightful paradox that our children are the fathers of our own maturity.</span></p> <p class="p3" style="text-align: center;">*****</p> <p class="p4"><span class="s2">JOSEPH PEARCE is the author of numerous books on Catholic literary topics and a member of Msgr. Andrew K. Gwynn Council 1668 in Greenville, S.C. 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