"God wants you to be a Bride of Christ"

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Does this mean that God just wants you to join the Church?

Once a member, the Church itself is the bride and Christ is the bridegroom, making women members into “brides?”
 
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So, by deduction, all females in the Catolic church are HIs Brides?

Remember that the church is the bride, so what are the men in the church to be called in this imagry?

Are the men also brides of Christ who are married to HIm?
 
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So, by deduction, all females in the Catolic church are HIs Brides?

Remember that the church is the bride, so what are the men in the church to be called in this imagry?

Are the men also brides of Christ who are married to HIm?
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The Church is a communion of saints, any sex and no sex (angels).

Col 1, The Supremacy of Christ:
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; 16 for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything.
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I believe the free choice of the vows, the covenant of spouses, their union both through word and body, is the closest metaphor God can use to describe to us humans His desire to live in complete union with each individual in love.

So this vision of a man and wife is more like a beautiful painting that can only humanly describe God’s desire for us.
 
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It’s archetypal symbology. If agency is “male” and receptivity is “female”, then the created soul is female in relation to God, the Creator. These ideas are not popular in gender studies classes.

I believe there is profound truth about this and scripture confirms it. St. Paul uses this imagery for Christ and the Church, the Bridegroom and the Bride. Since Christ is God and the authority acting in the Church to infuse it with his grace, we are the passive and fertile beneficiaries who bear the fruit of grace in the world. Mary is the first and perfect realization of this. It is clearly revealed by the fact that Christ is male and Mary is female. Mary is unique however because she is not a symbolic bride of Christ but is literally his Mother, the Spouse of the Holy Spirit, and the Mother of the Church.
 
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