Aug 21, 2019
“Wives, be topic to your husbands, as to the Lord. For
the husband is the top of the spouse as Christ is the top of the
church, his physique, and is himself its Savior. Because the church is
topic to Christ, so let wives even be topic in all the pieces to
their husbands.”
These phrases of St. Paul in Ephesians 5 have been a continuing
supply of discomfort to trendy Catholics, and most monks would
somewhat clarify this instructing away or keep away from discussing it
altogether. For the trustworthy Catholic, nevertheless, treating Scripture
and Church instructing as one thing embarrassing is just not an possibility, nor
is relativizing and redefining it into oblivion. Ephesians 5 is the
essential supply for a way marriage, so badly broken by the Fall, has
been redeemed and supernaturalized within the Cross of Christ.
On this episode, Mary Stanford explains how we are able to perceive
and even come to like this instructing which so repels our egalitarian
age. She brings to the desk her research of Pope St. John Paul II’s
Theology of the Physique and the considered Edith Stein, in addition to
a long time of expertise as a spouse and mom.
Hyperlinks
Mary Stanford’s article “The Dynamic of the Present: Authority and
Submission in Christian Marriage”
https://www.hprweb.com/2013/01/the-dynamic-of-the-gift-authority-and-submission-in-christian-marriage/
A few of the instructing sources talked about on this episode:
1 Cor 11:3, Ephesians 5, Colossians 3:18-19, Timothy 2 and three,
Titus 2:5, 1 Peter 3:1-7
Pope Leo XIII, Arcanum divinae sapientiae, 1880
https://www.catholicculture.org/tradition/library/view.cfm?id=4858&repos=1&subrepos=0&searchid=1947264
Pope Pius XI, Casti connubii, 1930
https://www.catholicculture.org/tradition/library/view.cfm?id=3370&repos=1&subrepos=0&searchid=1947266
Pope St. John Paul II, Mulieris Dignitatem
https://www.catholicculture.org/tradition/library/view.cfm?id=3381&repos=1&subrepos=0&searchid=1947268
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