You will reciprocally promise love loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today before God you formulate.

Bid then the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

The divine right of husbands like the divine right of kings may it is hoped in this enlightened age be contested without danger.