August 21, 2019
“Wives, submit to your husbands as you submit to the Lord. For just as Christ is the head and body of the church, and himself the Savior of the church, so husbands are the heads of their wives. Therefore, as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be subject to their husbands in everything.”
These words of St. Paul in Ephesians 5 are a constant source of discomfort for modern Catholics, and most priests would rather explain this teaching or avoid discussing it at all. Let’s say. But for faithful Catholics, treating the Bible and the Church’s teachings with shame is not an option, nor is it an option to relativize and redefine them into oblivion. Ephesians 5 is an important resource that shows how a marriage badly damaged by the Fall can be saved and supernaturalized through the cross of Christ.
In this episode, Mary Stanford explains how we can understand and even love this teaching that rebels in an egalitarian age. She brings to the table her study of Pope St. John Paul II’s theology of the body and the thought of Edith Stein, as well as decades of experience as a wife and mother.
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Mary Stanford’s article “The Dynamics of Giving: Authority and Submission in Christian Marriage.”
https://www.hprweb.com/2013/01/the-dynamic-of-the-gift-authority-and-submission-in-christian-marriage/
Some of the materials mentioned in this episode include:
1 Corinthians 11:3, Ephesians 5, Colossians 3:18-19, Timothy 2 and 3, Titus 2:5, 1 Peter 3:1- 7
Pope Leo XIII, Arcanum divinae sapientiae1880
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=4858&repos=1&subrepos=0&searchid=1947264
Pope Pius XI, Casti Connubiy1930
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=3370&repos=1&subrepos=0&searchid=1947266
Pope St. John Paul II, The dignity of Murialis
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=3381&repos=1&subrepos=0&searchid=1947268
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