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"Give way to one another in obedience to Christ. Wives should regard their husbands as they regard the Lord, since as Christ is head of the Church and saves the whole body, so is a husband the head of his wife; and as the Church submits to Christ, so should wives to their husbands, in everything. Husbands should love their wives just as Christ loved the Church and sacrificed himself for her to make her holy. He made her clean by washing her in water with a form of words, so that when he took her to himself she would be glorious, with no speck or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and faultless. In the same way, husbands must love their wives as they love their own bodies; for a man to love his wife is for him to love himself. A man never hates his own body, but he feeds it and looks after it; and that is the way Christ treats the Church, because it is his body – and we are its living parts. For this reason, a man must leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one body. This mystery has many implications; but I am saying it applies to Christ and the Church. To sum up; you too, each one of you, must love his wife as he loves himself; and let every wife respect her husband."
– Ephesians 5:21-33, which is today's epistle at Mass.

Detail from the apse of St Dominic's Priory church, the Rosary Shrine in London, where I serve as Prior and Parish Priest. These windows are soon to undergo cleaning and restoration.To find out more about the apse restoration, visit our website.

This stained glass window depicts the Bride and Groom from the Song of Songs, which is symbolic of Jesus (identified by the wounds in his hands) marrying the soul or the Church, a classic interpretation of this book of the Bible.

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Taken on: March 19, 2020

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