Father’s Day Reflection

David Martin | The Daily Knight

Father’s Day is a time to reflect on how the man is always the head of the household with the woman abiding under his authority. That is to say, she is not his equal. St. Paul says that in the same way the Church must submit to Christ’s authority so the woman must submit to her husband’s authority (Eph. 5:21-25). For this reason he says that the woman must always have a covering on her head during prayer to show she is under the power of husband (1 Cor. 11:3-6).

When the man delegates his duties to the wife by letting her be the boss and make family decisions it works to the detriment of the family. God made Adam head over his wife Eve, but when Adam gave Eve permission to eat of the forbidden fruit he ruined it for himself and for the rest of the human race that is suffering for it to this day.

Likewise, when the man allows his wife to ‘wear the pants’ and take birth control pills he scandalizes his family whereby young men are even tempted to become homosexuals because they don’t have a strong father figure to look up to. They grow up thinking the man is a wimp.

Hence, Father’s Day is an appropriate time to reflect on the man’s authority over the family so that his wife can be sanctified and his children can grow up right. In the 70s the feminists under the tag of ERA drummed up the title “male chauvinist pig” to try to give men a complex about their God-given role to oversee the family, but any true man will close his ears to this silliness.

Let him rather heed God the Father who commands that the woman be under her husband with the husband ruling his wife and family well. To strengthen the man in his role let him also look to St. Joseph who is “Glory of home life” and “Pillar of families. As it says in the Litany of St. Joseph, God made him “Lord of his household, and prince over all his possessions.” He indeed is “Head of the Holy Family.

Let fathers take on the example and the ways of St. Joseph to better enable them to guard the institution of the family that is presently under heavy attack from the feminist coalition.