Friday, April 10, 2009

Good Friday

So yesterday Fr. Burns had a wonderful homily on the institution of the Eucharist and priesthood and did a beautiful feet washing.

Today I woke up and realized that just as Holy Thursday is a reminder for all priest of their servitude, Good Friday is a reminder to me of my role at the foot of the cross and the special role that my husband has.

The first verse that came to my mind was "Who though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross. (Phil 2:7-8)

This is what Christ endured out of humility for us and in return he tells all husbands and wives to "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.

I rejoice in this day that serves as a reminder of my role to sit at the foot of the cross in willful obedience just as Mary did so many years ago watching her only Son be sacrificed and crucified for the sake of His Church. I pray that all woman may have the grace to sit in obedience and admiration of their spouse and then all married men will have the strength to endure the wood of the cross.