Are You a Minister of the Sacrament?

The consent as absolutely necessary for the gift of self, which is really kind of what marriage signifies about the relationship of Christ in the church. And I think that's what a lot of what Pope John Paul II theology of the body is, is concentrating on is that language of the gift. The witnessing priest is somehow indirectly a minister of the sacrament also. But insofar as he's witnessing on behalf of God, um, now he's not as, he's not a necessary minister, certainly not.