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By: Brigid Rauch
@Paul F Ford – comment #11: I love “That Hideous Strength ” because it so clearly captures the pitfalls of the academic life. However, i would point out that when Mr.Lewis wrote the material quoted...
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By: Brigid Rauch
@Paul F Ford – comment #10: Note that the USCCB uses the terms “inferior” (wives, slaves, children) and “superior” (fathers, masters). Speaking as an “inferior”, it sounds to me like certain...
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By: Brigid Rauch
@John Kohanski – comment #8: All to often I have heard a homily which uses this reading to advance a secular agenda; and that agenda isn’t that husbands and wives should have total, self-sacrificing...
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By: Jeffrey Pinyan
@Brigid Rauch – comment #17: Why preach on the Epistle this Sunday? Why is this portion of this Epistle in the lectionary? I’d prefer all the Scriptures were preached upon, but it’s hard to do that in...
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By: John Kohanski
OK Brigid–I’m with you there. I’ve heard this reading used to advance an agenda too. And it was quite opposite of what the Church teaches about how husbands and wives should relate to each other. My...
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By: Jordan Zarembo
Is Ephesians 5:22-33 still an option for the second reading in the reformed nuptial Mass? In Western traditions, Ephesians 5:22-33 is the required epistle reading in the Tridentine nuptial votive Mass....
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By: Brigid Rauch
It occurs to me that this passage is liable to be read out either by a married woman or a married man. As a married woman, I’m glad I’m not going to be reading it; I think doing so properly is beyond...
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By: Jimmy Mac
@Philip Sandstrom – comment #5: Most everything we have and do is an invention of someone! Report Comment
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By: John Kohanski
@Brigid Rauch – comment #21: It will be read at my parish, as per usual, by the sub-deacon. On that Sunday, the person serving as sub-deacon according to the rota, is an 18yo single male college...
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By: Brigid Rauch
Can we have a follow-up posting allowing people to report whether any homily mentioned this reading? Report Comment
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I see that C. S. Lewis has been used here as a varnish to somehow add luster to the argument that excluding women from ordination is a “maddening ambiguity of our faith”. Unfortunately Joy Gresham...
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