{"content":[{"text":"they will harass you in the country where you live and I will treat you as I had intended to treat \n them.” Of course, they did not drive out ALL the inhabitants and they did not destroy ALL the \n devoted things. They began to intermarry with Canaanites who led them to worship their false \n idols. Even after the wonderful covenant renewal ceremony that reminded the people of all that \n God had done for them, Joshua knew that their hearts were still divided and their promise was \n easier said than done.3","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.091021,"width":0.842068,"height":0.113524}},{"text":"Ephesians 5:21-32 \n The key to this reading is that real spiritual leadership is found in service. \n becoming a doormat for Jesus Christ submitted his will to the Father.9","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.223318,"width":0.565394,"height":0.056985000000000036}},{"text":"Being submissive does not mean","bbox":{"left":0.633649,"top":0.24298,"width":0.24495999999999996,"height":0.018383999999999984}},{"text":"Brothers and sisters: \n 21Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ. St. Paul calls for mutual submission \n within the network of relationships that follow: husbands and wives,(22-25) parents and children, \n (6:1-4) slaves and masters (6:5-9). The submission he recommends in these various circumstances is \n reciprocal although not strictly identical, for the commands given to husbands, fathers, and masters \n are different from those given to wives, children, and slaves.6 St. Paul gives us a general principle, \n which should govern relationships among members of the Church: they should submit to one \n another because Christ is their true judge and he has lordship over all.7 Christ’s self-sacriﬁcing love \n for others is now the model for home life.8 \n 22Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord. The basis of the supernatural \n dignity of Christian marriage lies in the fact that it is an extension of the union between Christ and \n his Church. Jesus describes himself as the bridegroom and the relationship between Christ and the \n Church appears in the New Testament in terms of husband-wife. A Christian wife, by the way she \n relates to her husband, should reﬂect the Church itself, in its obedience to Christ. The husband, for \n his part, is asked to be similarly submissive to his wife, for he is a reﬂection of Jesus Christ, who \n gave himself up even to death out of love for the Church.7 \n 23For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior of the \n body. \n 24As the church is subordinate to Christ, so wives should be subordinate to their husbands in \n everything. Pope Pius XI taught that the submission of the wife neither ignores nor suppresses the \n liberty to which her dignity as a human person and her noble functions as wife, mother, and \n companion give her the full right. It does not oblige her to yield indiscriminately to all the desires of \n her husband, which may be unreasonable or incompatible with her wifely dignity. But it does forbid \n the abuse of freedom that would neglect the welfare of the family. If the husband is the head of the \n domestic body, then the wife is its heart; and as the ﬁrst holds the primacy of authority, so the \n second can and ought to claim the primacy of love.7 \n 25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her \n Christ loved the Church by teaching and honoring her, sacriﬁcing, suffering and being humiliated \n for her, as well as providing for and dying for her. A husband is to do for his bride exactly what \n Christ did for his bride. A husband may not be called to die physically for his wife, but he is called \n to die to himself. He is called to die to his needs and tend to her needs ﬁrst.9 The husband’s mission \n is to build up his marriage and family, not to dominate or demean them for selﬁsh ends. His model \n is Christ, whose love was put into action by sacriﬁce.6","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.299355,"width":0.8812380000000001,"height":0.624887}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}