Good Friday a Man takes his Wife

As Adam was made in the image of God, so Christ is the image of God. And as we see this image especially in Adam's love for his new bride, so we see Christ loving to the end, and ironically Pilate is the one who says, Behold the man. For if you would see Christ's abiding love, look no further than his cross. And as a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, so Christ left his Father, who abandoned him on the cross, and his mother, whom he gave to the beloved disciple, to be joined to his bride, the Church. And as Adam slept and God took a rib from his side to fashion Eve, so Christ slept in death, and from his side there came blood and water, from which Sacraments the Church was created  and brought to him. And the two become one flesh in the blessed Supper. Sermon for Good Friday. The video is here.