MP 013: Submission in Marriage
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2015
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
"Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, and is Himself its Savior." Ephesians 5:22-23
Catholic lectors regularly skip this passage for a reason: people in the pews start squirming when it's read! Why is that? But this is an integral passage to help us understand not only the relationship between husbands and wives, but in understanding how we can image God to each other. Often this passage is misinterpreted and misunderstood, but after years of thinking about this and living it out in our marriage, we want to offer a different view. The heart of what we talk about is how God wants to love each husband and each wife through their spouse. Marital love is a powerful thing because God wants to use it to show us His powerful awesome love. Listen in as we offer our perspective on this compelling passage of God's Word.
Show Notes:
- Read it in the Bible: Ephesians 5:21-31
- Fr. John Riccardo's podcast on The Biblical Vision for Marriage
- An old article Alicia wrote on submission in marriage ( from 1998!)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to messy parenting, a Catholic conversation on marriage and family. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm Mike Hernan. |
| 0:13.5 | And I'm Alicia Hernan. |
| 0:14.8 | And we've been married 20 years and have 10 children, a little over 20 years, I guess. |
| 0:20.6 | We have a little over 10 children. |
| 0:23.1 | Sometimes it feels like it, though. |
| 0:25.4 | Yes, yes. |
| 0:26.0 | Today we took them on a hike, and it felt like the 2-year-old was like five children. |
| 0:29.3 | Yes, yeah. |
| 0:30.9 | And then the 4-year-old just loved mud way, way too much. |
| 0:34.8 | But hey, that's what boys are. |
| 0:36.3 | And did not understand that mud was slippery. |
| 0:37.9 | I thought he would just like run through it. |
| 0:39.0 | It was fun times. |
| 0:40.5 | Yeah, lots of good times. |
| 0:41.8 | Anyway, so thanks for joining us here. |
| 0:45.8 | This is a podcast that really is letting you into a conversation that Alicia and I are having. |
| 0:51.4 | And we don't claim to be experts, you know, having any kind of professional or otherwise |
| 0:56.3 | experience, just our personal experiences. |
| 0:59.2 | And so we just like to consider ourselves, maybe for some of you, at least, an older |
| 1:03.1 | brother or sister, sharing some thoughts, some of our successes and failures. |
| 1:07.7 | And maybe you can learn from some of the insights and experiences we've had over the years on marriage and family issues. |
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