A Poem, a Prayer, and a Passage, #2

“Key to Wedlock,” a prayer from Elizabeth Goudge, and an excerpt from “Treasuring the Goods of Marriage”

A Poem: “Key to Wedlock”

by Peter Kwasniewski

Say not, “Why me, why us,” when troubles come,
For come they will, in forms diverse and dark;
Nor can we know their nature or their sum,
If they be light or heavy, mild or stark.

Say rather, “This we know, if nothing more,
That every evil summons forth a strength
Compared to which the virtue from before
Looks feeble,…