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Written by Kristen West McGuire
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The Bridal Wreath, by Sigrid Undset It takes a bit of work to begin the first book of Undset’s masterpiece, Kristin Lavransdatter, which won the Nobel prize for literature in 1928. Undset’s copious research is evident on every page, a tribute to her archaeologist father. The diction is true to its setting in medieval Norway, and detailed footnotes help to acquaint the reader with the meaning of some of the more obscure references. A chapter or two later, you’ll be fluent in medieval patter, and eager for the pages to keep turning. |
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 On December 21, 1948, a middle-aged woman in a simple white sari sat under a tree in the Moti Jihl slum of Calcutta, and wrote lessons with a stick in the dirt for the malnourished children at her feet. It was her first day as the foundress of the Missionaries of Charity. |
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Ephesians 5:21-33
Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is head of his wife, just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior of the body. As the church is subordinate to Christ, so wives should be subordinate to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her, to sanctify her, cleansing her by the bath of water with the word, that he might present to himself the church in splendor, without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. So husbands should love their wives as they love their own bodies. He who loves his wife, loves himself. For no one hates his own flesh but rather nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body.
For this reason, a man shall leave [his] father and [his] mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and the church. In any case, each one of you should love his wife as himself, and the wife should respect her husband.
(New American Bible)
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