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Monday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time

November 6th

Reading 1

Rom 11:29-36

Brothers and sisters: The gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

Just as you once disobeyed God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience, so they have now disobeyed in order that, by virtue of the mercy shown to you, they too may now receive mercy. For God delivered all to disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments and how unsearchable his ways!

For who has known the mind of the Lord or who has been his counselor? Or who has given him anything that he may be repaid?

For from him and through him and for him are all things. To God be glory forever. Amen.

Responsorial Psalm

Ps 69:30-31, 33-34, 36

R. (14c) Lord, in your great love, answer me.

But I am afflicted and in pain;

let your saving help, O God, protect me.

I will praise the name of God in song,

and I will glorify him with thanksgiving.

R. Lord, in your great love, answer me.

"See, you lowly ones, and be glad;

you who seek God, may your hearts revive!

For the LORD hears the poor,

and his own who are in bonds he spurns not."

R. Lord, in your great love, answer me.

For God will save Zion

and rebuild the cities of Judah.

They shall dwell in the land and own it,

and the descendants of his servants shall inherit it,

and those who love his name shall inhabit it.

R. Lord, in your great love, answer me.

Alleluia

Jn 8:31b-32

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples,

and you will know the truth, says the Lord.

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel

Lk 14:12-14

On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees. He said to the host who invited him, "When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or sisters or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors, in case they may invite you back and you have repayment. Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."

Okay, here's more detail, as promised.

Human beings consist of both body and soul. The body is biological, and is sexed. The soul, as spiritual, is not in itself sexed. The angels, which are pure spirit, are not sexed. God, who is pure spirit, is not sexed. Because we humans have biological, sexed bodies, our whole being is informed by this sexed nature. We engender our being into the world as either male or female, depending on the type of body we were created with. After we die, our souls will not be sexed in the biological sense, but our personalities will nevertheless be inextricably tied up with our experience as sexed beings. And, of course, we believe that God will ultimately reunite us with our bodies in the new creation, and those bodies will certainly be sexed.

In short, we would not say that an individual soul is male or female, but we would say that an individual soul is of a man or a woman.

Now, because we are created in God's image as male and female, our engendered nature reflects something of the nature of God. On a fundamental, biological level, the relationship between the sexes is that man initiates and gives, and woman responds and receives. Obviously the relationship between men and women has many more dimensions than that, but fundamentally, when man and woman come to union, particularly and clearly in the sexual act, it follows that basic pattern.

In the spiritual life, God always initiates. As Augustine says, "Late have I loved thee, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new." God initiates from the very moment of our creation, and we can do nought but respond. God gives us everything we have, and we can do nought but receive. The Word of God goes forth, becomes incarnate, seeks out fallen man, and gives everything, even His life, to win us over. Throughout the Old Testament, God uses spousal imagery to refer to the chosen people of Israel. In the New Testament, Paul refers to the Church as the bride of Christ, and in Revelations we see the wedding feast of Christ the Lamb with his bride.

Thus, each of us is always in a position of receiving and responding to what God has done first. The spousal imagery in Scripture is no accident. In the relationship between the sexes, man reveals something about how God reaches out to us, pursues us, and seeks to win us over, and woman reveals something about how we are created for Him, to receive and return His love.

That is why I say that, in an analogical sense, every soul is female.

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The soul is inherently ungendered, but in the spiritual life, Jesus is the bridegroom and we are the bride.

I don't think the Christian manosphere is ready for that conversation, though.

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