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Written by Kristen West McGuire
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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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Written by Kristen West McGuire
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 (Alexandra Marie Burghardt is majoring in English at Southeastern Lousiana University. This interview was conducted in October 2006.)
Q. Why do you call yourself a pilgrim?
A. I first knew I was a pilgrim at 18. I was volunteering during spring break at a hospice for AIDS victims with the Missionaries of Charity in (Washington) D.C. After anointing them with holy water, I was seized with irrational fears (fairly common for me) that I had gotten AIDS and was going to die. In prayer, the first thought that came to me was, "The earth is not my home". I laid in my bunk that night, repeating it over and over. Q. How did being a pilgrim relate to becoming a religious sister?
A. In Russian Orthodox spirituality, a pilgrim is an educated person who leaves everything and lives a simple life, praying along the road. That*s what I felt I was doing by leaving college and joining the sisters (Franciscan Sisters TOR of the Penance of the Sorrowful Mother in Steubenville, OH). |
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Written by Margaret and Kristen McGuire
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Finally! The works of Elizabeth Goudge are being reprinted! You do not want to miss the books that many older women have told me they read and re-read as teens. I think it is my favorite book ever...even now in my forties! To write this review, I only meant to read a few passages to remind myself of the the highlights. At 1:45 a.m., I guiltily clicked off the lamp and trundled into bed, where my husband grunted his disapproval. All through the exhaustion of the following day, however, my happy soul reminded me that some books are better than a good night's sleep. |
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