Marriage has three goods: the first is the procreation and education of children for the worship of God; the second is the fidelity which one spouse owes the other; the third is the sacrament: the indivisibility of marriage, because it signifies the indivisible union of Christ
It is right that her name is Mary, which means star of the sea (stella maris), because just as sailors are guided by a star to port, so too Christians are guided by Mary to glory.
It is right that her name is Mary, which means star of the sea (stella maris), because just as sailors are guided by a star to port, so too Christians are guided by Mary to glory.
The woman was not formed from the feet of the man as a servant, nor from the head as lording it over her husband, but from the side as a companion, as it says in Genesis (2:21).
It is right that her name is Mary, which means star of the sea (stella maris), because just as sailors are guided by a star to port, so too Christians are guided by Mary to glory.
Christ appeared to the woman first, for this reason, that as a woman was the first to bring the source of death to man, so she might be the first to announce the dawn of Christ's glorious Resurrection.
The woman was not formed from the feet of the man as a servant, nor from the head as lording it over her husband, but from the side as a companion, as it says in Genesis (2:21).
Excess sadness is a disease of the mind, but mild sadness is the mark of a well-conditioned mind, according to the present state of life (ST 1-2 59.3ad3).
The love of bodily pleasures leads man to have a distaste for spiritual things, and not to hope for them as arduous goods. In this way, lust causes despair (ST 2-2.20.4).
The woman was not formed from the feet of the man as a servant, nor from the head as lording it over her husband, but from the side as a companion, as it says in Genesis (2:21).
The love of bodily pleasures leads man to have a distaste for spiritual things, and not to hope for them as arduous goods. In this way, lust causes despair (ST 2-2.20.4).