Constanza Miriano. Why did St Paul used the word submissive? I think that in the video there is a confussion that John Paul II clarifies so well in the adiences where he developed the Theology of the Body. …More
Constanza Miriano. Why did St Paul used the word submissive?
I think that in the video there is a confussion that John Paul II clarifies so well in the adiences where he developed the Theology of the Body.
The letter of St Paul to the Ephesians is not talking about submission as being without a will of its own or becoming a doormat, but to be under the mission the man is also asked by God. That mission is always the same: The Glory of God and the salvation of men. There is nothing demeaning on that! This is the text: "22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. 30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.
I think that in the video there is a confussion that John Paul II clarifies so well in the adiences where he developed the Theology of the Body.
The letter of St Paul to the Ephesians is not talking about submission as being without a will of its own or becoming a doormat, but to be under the mission the man is also asked by God. That mission is always the same: The Glory of God and the salvation of men. There is nothing demeaning on that! This is the text: "22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. 30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.