Today at Mass I was scheduled to assist as an Extraordinary Eucharistic Minister. However, when the scheduled Lector didn't show up, the sacristan had me do that, since I am also a Lector at my church.
Ah, I thought, we have St. Paul's "famous" admonition to the women to be subordinate to their husbands in the second reading.
I read the first part in my usual "calmly moderated" Lector voice.
Then paused.
And then . . .
Husbands! Love your wives, even as Christ loved the Church!
The smirk left many a man's face, I noted. I was told after Mass that there was a bit of nudging going on in the pews, the wives digging their elbows into their husbands' ribs to wake him up to that part. And a few women came up afterwards to let me know, they liked my emphasis.
I love my Church!
3 comments:
FWIW, The verb "be subject to" isn't in the verse about women, it's in the verse previous where it says "be subject to one another". The "women" verse is a subset of that, and in the Greek just says, "women to your husbands."
I wonder who added the extra verb???
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We always read the "Short version."
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