In today's reading from Ephesians 5, Paul talks about the proper roles of husbands and wives. He writes: "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.... Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the Church.... So also husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. (...) 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. (...) In any case, each one of you should love his wife as himself, and the wife should respect her husband." Clearly, God created men and women with different roles so that the family might be perfect. The head and the heart are equally important in forming an ideal family. If the wife wants to be the head also, or if the husband does not love the wife as himself, the family breaks apart. This is exactly what is happening to us nowadays, as Satan aims to destroy the family. To fight this, we need to surrender to God completely first, for only through him will we be able to overcome all evil.
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