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The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Do Wives Have to Be Submissive?

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.97.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

"Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord." (Ephesians 5:22)

Woah! Come again?

On the list of controversial and misunderstood Bible verses, this is near the top. When it swings through in the cycle of Mass readings, folks are often left in the pew looking at each other like, "Did anyone else just hear what St. Paul said?"

If you'll let Fr. Mike explain this scripture passage, it will transform the way you understand Christian marriage (for the better).

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm going to get all close to this.

0:01.0

This is all right.

0:02.0

This is my close-up, Mr. Demel.

0:04.8

I think it accentuates some of my...

0:06.8

I have a name's Father Mike Schmitz, and this is Ascension Presents.

0:11.6

So here is the scripture that is read in Mass on Sundays, occasional Sundays.

0:18.5

Here's a scripture that some people even choose to have at their weddings.

0:21.6

Here's a scripture that sometimes people in the Bible in a year or even they're just

0:24.7

stumbling through the New Testament and they come across Ephesians chapter 5, and they

0:28.4

hit this line that says, wives be submissive to your husbands and all things as to the Lord.

0:33.8

And all of a sudden, just like, whoa, what is happening?

0:36.3

In fact, when that comes up in the lecture area, right in the cycle of readings on Sundays,

0:40.6

sometimes it's just like, what is happening?

0:42.7

What are we going to say?

0:43.7

Even there might even be an option to like skip it or to like go over this.

0:47.3

When people choose it for their weddings, you know, I sometimes see this.

0:50.5

I sometimes see this confusion of like people who guess at the wedding are looking back

0:53.8

and forth like, did they actually...

0:55.4

Here's Catholic YouTube, there's Catholic Twitter, there's Catholic all these things, and

0:59.2

there's this kind of like this rise and people talking about, yeah, that's what we do.

1:03.2

Here's what it is.

1:04.2

Husbands, you are leaders.

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