Marriage in Focus: Harmony (Wed. October 7)
The word of the day is “harmony.” In today’s reading of Ephesians 5:25-33, St. Paul discusses the duties of husband and wife in marriage. As a camera focuses on one object to make the picture clear, so we will put the focal point on one thought to shed light on the whole passage. St. Paul suggests our focus when he gives the reason for the wife’s role in marriage. He states, “And Paul would never without a reason and without an object have spent so much pains on this subject” (NFPF1 13 143. What is that purpose? It is concord as Chrysostom states, “because when they are in harmony, the children are well brought up, and the domestics are in…