Holy Family
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‘Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord’ But men, sacrifice your life for your wife.
Scripture/ teaching controversial go there
how God loves to work OT and NT, parables tended to be controversial paradoxical
what granted in one age controversial in another
Church option skip that verse today out of sensitivity to western audience
but we shall not
Holy Family
In the Gospel today, as at the Nativity, Christ is presented with the Holy family
salvation came through the family
God is Trinity
the Good/True is relational
in God’s image is image of the Trinity ccc2205
Genesis: man was not made a male, but male and female he created us
and the two make a third
even for us celibates, not for selves to live a bachelor life
even biological
face expression
language
and more obviously and fundamentally our sex which only rationally exists for the other
parts of body gain individual identity in relation, so the human
building block makes no rational sense whatsoever if its the individual, because our identity is based in relationality
no, it is in the family.
if exist for self, we lose our very human identity
this is the human, most fundamentally familial and communal, not isolated individual
as our doctrine is, the persons of reality, the Trinity, like us, are ONLY distinguished by relation.
Authority, hierarchy, patriarchy
family as the fundamental unit of humanity, I can get behind that father,
I reject lie of world that live for self
but what of that line you mentioned beginning...
I know the Word of God repeats 3 times at least in NT, but isn’t that outdated chauvinism?
no, 3 weird modern views on power make us think so
Reasons
Power makes you valued
dunno what to say about this except obvious lie
Contra
Trump Biden
notice then?
but even notice is lost
remember what Mother Teresa’s greatly famous superior she was subject under, her bishop, said?
no…and I bet you do not even know his name
Power arbitrary
beginning to see power as made up..arbitrary
if arbitrary, then not based in real differences
so anything that is not absolutely equal, that is the same, is seen as evil
This absurd ideology against unequal power:
even biology, denying differences basic as physical strength simply because these truths create unequality
Contra
part wrong and part right
all equally human
However, we are not all identical, and so diff abilities
only time the real world in real relations and not online or theoretical reveal this smack-you in the face truth
heart is not the head and head not the heart, but need each other doing part for the whole
if the heart tries to be the same as the head, then no blood will flow even to the head
if head tries to be the same as the heart heart all ordering of the body will fall into spasms, even the heart
but like all major differences makes different roles and so different power
Power w/ domination
St. Chrysostom says of old “not that subjection which is due a master”, not even the more benevolant disparity between children to parents
God meant women as child, he would have said women and children obey the man, but he separates the two
this bad view comes from thinking power are in it for selves
Contra
all roles or professions aim at good of their subject.
Plato argument
Christ: good shepherd
If husband is head slave to all but self
Scripture goes ‘love his wife as Christ loved his Church’ [POINT]
Christ was still head mother Church even while humble slave to her (washing her feet)
so basically be a man and boldy embrace torture and death for her
have a spine to say hard truth that will get you crucified even (and especially) when they do not benefit you at all
if you are opposite do not expect wife to follow you, for even children who have the more extreme duty of obedience dont have to obey evil
Ruling means submitting, different way
(active submitting rather than passive, pour into rather than receive)
Saint Chrysostom quoting this controversial verse says that the wife and husband serve each other,
as Ephesians 5:21 tells us”be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ”.
the family involves mutual pouring out, like the Father the Son, and Holy Spirit
both are called to die to self in two different ways, one more active one more passive
one more of toughness one more of softness, like bone and flesh, head and heart
If does not happen, no head or no heart
the family will be like a country with two presidents
a kingdom with warring claimants to kingship
a classroom with two disagreeing teachers
the whole will collapse or one will become the slave master and the other a pathetic slave, and the life of the Trinity will vanish like smoke
the family is the basic building block of humanity, pull out the bricks and the building becomes a mess
with the family, then so with the nation, and perhaps the whole world
Me
dual weakness of childhood and poverty
salvation thru family
promise of doom for child
roles
husband and wife
desire vs to be desired
child
Notes
Scripture
eph 5:21 “be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ”
eph 5:32 This is a great mystery, and I mean in reference to Christ and the Church
1 Peter 5:5 Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another
Catechism
2205; image of God/Trinity
Pitre
Turtle doves are for poor, so know poorer family.
return for normal family life
like here great prophecy, go to family life
mutual submission (JPII theology)
different roles
older texts say not about unjust rule
Chrysostom
“not that subjection which is due a master”
man to love and women to submit so that woman love and man submit
but order this way b/c man moved by desire and woman to be desired
domestic quarrels/ quaerrels btwn lovers are worst
Bede
birds are for poor who cant afford lamb
‘grew’ indicating how much weakness he took on himself
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