Love Vs. Respect: FtJ 5

Before Discussion Notes

• Creation & Results of the Fall: Adam (wants honor & respect) & Eve (wants love/protection)
• Priest (santicfying), Prophet (preaching), King (leading through lens of service), the head of the family= Men
  • All of us are called to be priests, prophets, & kings through Baptism (https://www.catholicdigest.com/from-the-magazine/from-the-catechism/priest-prophet-and-king-who-me/), but men are to strive to fulfill this role as Christ within their domestic church aka the home/family.
    • 1. Priest- https://catholicgentleman.com/2014/07/the-three-munera-part-2-the-father-as-priest/
    • 2. Prophet- https://catholicgentleman.com/2014/07/the-three-munera-part-1-the-father-as-prophet/)
    • 3. King- https://catholicgentleman.com/2014/08/three-munera-part-3-father-king/
• The Body of Christ/Blessed Virgin/the Church, the heart of the home= Women (nurturing & place of refuge)
  • 507 At once virgin and mother, Mary is the symbol and the most perfect realization of the Church: “the Church indeed … by receiving the word of God in faith becomes herself a mother. By preaching and Baptism she brings forth sons, who are conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of God, to a new and immortal life. She herself is a virgin, who keeps in its entirety and purity the faith she pledged to her spouse.”^{[170] – Catechism of the Catholic Church}
  • “Women are called to bring to the family, to society, and to the Church characteristics which are their own and which they alone can give: their gentle warmth, their untiring generosity, their love for detail, their quick-wittedness and intuition, their simple and deep piety, and their constancy.” – St. JoseMaria Escrivá [ https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/wives-be-submissive-to-your-husbands-5026 ]

Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Church, his body, and is himself its Savior. As the Church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that he might present the Church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the Church, because we are members of his body. “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This is a great mystery, and I mean in reference to Christ and the Church; however, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

– Ephesians 5:21-33

Likewise you wives, be submissive to your husbands, so that some, though they do not obey the word, may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives, when they see your reverent and chaste behavior. Let not yours be the outward adorning with braiding of hair, decoration of gold, and wearing of robes, but let it be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable jewel of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious. So once the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves and were submissive to their husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are now her children if you do right and let nothing terrify you. Likewise you husbands, live considerately with your wives, bestowing honor on the woman as the weaker sex, since you are joint heirs of the grace of life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered.

– 1 Peter 3:1-7

The Grace of the Sacrament of Marriage: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-catechism-in-a-year-with-fr-mike-schmitz/id1648949780?i=1000624216535