Submission as a Christian bride is, essentially, what each and every one of us have to practice every day of our lives; we are part of the Church, which is the Bride of Christ. Jesus Christ is the Bridegroom, and we are the Bride.
He is the ultimate Masculine to which we are all, essentially, feminine.
Now, for those of you girls who don’t like that - tough. God made them male and female. He saw that it was not good for man to be alone. He made marriage and He made it a Sacrament of the Church. It is a holy and pious act to be married and to live that out.
What are we told about marriage? Wives - obey your husband as you would obey Christ. Husbands - love your wife as Christ loved the Church.
Quit moaning your problems to me, ladies
We have the harder job - you have to do what we are ALL (male AND female) called to do; obey a loving spouse. I have to obey Christ AND I have to love my wife as Christ loved and loves the Church.
Now, does that mean women should stay home barefoot and pregnant? Does that mean women should not have a vote, or a say, or be allowed to hold a job, or be allowed to own property?
Of course not - women are not chattels, they are not slaves. They are human beings, with equal rights to men.
Are they the same as men? Absolutely not - they are feminine are we are masculine.
Is the feminine lesser than the masculine? In certain respects, yes. In other respects, no. In many respects, the masculine is less than the feminine.
We are complementary genders - only in a marriage does the human being find perfection. “It is not good for man to be alone”.
The Church has, since the earliest days, taught that women are respected and valuable. Pick up a Bible and actually read it, rather than looking at it with Germaine Greer’s glasses and thinking that because Paul demands submission of wives. Consider that the mother of God - the Queen of Heaven - is female. That is not the action of a Church or a God who hates or denegrates women.
To whom did Christ appear first? Who stayed with Christ when everyone else ran?
Wake up, girls!
You are respected and loved and admired and nigh-on-worshipped by the Church for
what you actually are. You are not men, you are women. You have your own set of strengths and weaknesses, quite different from ours.
My marriage calls me to love my wife as Christ loved the Church - which means that I have to die for her even when she might be ungrateful. I have to do what is best for her even when the world (and even
she) might hate me for it.
The examples given above about the stuffed moose heads and so forth - do I really need to address these? A man who acts like that is not acting in a manner which suggests he loves his wife as Christ loved the Church. He is acting like a jerk, which isn’t how Christ loved the Church. Christ did EVERYTHING for the Church, and demanded EVERYTHING in return.
What will marriage cost you, male or female? Every last little thing you have, your blood, your soul, your life. I would burn in Hell for all eternity to stop Liza from crying for a single second - but I would also stand there and tell her she is wrong if she is.
That is love. Love is not 50/50 - love is 100/100, and if you could give more you would be required to.
Just as a matter of interest, I hate feminism. I don’t hate what it SHOULD have been, but I hate what it has become. It has become - instead of a glorification of the feminine (of sisters, wives, mothers and daughters) - a glorification of the masculine. Women starve and pinch and preen themselves in order to make themselves sexually attractive, and yet contracept and abort their children. They say that they will not submit to a single man, yet they submit to any man who happens to wander by and cast his eyes over them (even if the girl doesn’t immediately fall into bed, just who is she looking pretty for if she is unmarried and uninterested in joining herself to a man as a bride? Herself? Nope - doesn’t hold water. She’s trying to impress somone - and it ain’t her.)
The
one thing which women can do which men absolutely cannot is bear children. There are many things which men do better and which women do better, but the only uniquely female thing is childbearing.
So why are so few feminists married or mothers? Why are so many of them obsessed with the idea of remaining free and single - and denying their very feminity?
I
hate feminism - it has poisoned a generation or more of women with its Satanic lies. And if you are getting all huffy and uppity here, rather than agreeing with me, too bad. Call me a mysogonist, a chavanist. Call me worse - I’ve been called worse.
I love women - I married one. I praise one daily as the brightest and best creation that God ever made. I honor them and my heart bleeds when I see what has been done to the gender.
(TBC . . .)
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It is actually a burden sometimes. But it also make me feel like a million bucks. It means she believes in me. Every man needs that. And the converse is true with regard to how a wife and mother is to be treated.
