Husbands Love Your Wives?

Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P. reflects on Colossians 3 and Ephesians 5 and St. Paul’s teaching on marriage. These passages are often read as statements about authority or hierarchy, but St. Paul is revealing the measure of Christian love itself—Christ’s love for the Church.

Husbands are called to love as Christ loves, by giving everything without reserve. Wives respond with the Church’s total self-gift to Christ. Marriage is not an abstract ideal or a social arrangement, but a sacramental participation in the saving love of Jesus, made possible by grace and lived in the concrete reality of daily life.