I had already cited some pretty negative ideas on women and marriage by Pope St. Leo the Great and Pope St. Gregory the Great. Now here is another "great" statement by St. Basil the Great:
"...The viper, the cruelest of reptiles, unites itself with the sea lamprey, and, announcing its presence by a hiss, it calls it from the depths to conjugal union. The lamprey obeys, and is united to this venomous animal.What does this mean? However hard, however fierce a husband may be, the wife ought to bear with him, and not wish to find any pretext for breaking the union. He strikes you, but he is your husband. He is a drunkard, but he is united to you by nature. He is brutal and cross, but he is henceforth one of your members, and the most precious of all.”
Commentary:
How on earth could a bishop, saint and wise man like St. Basil compare a holy and sacramental union between man and woman to that of a viper and sea lamprey?! Then he even goes ahead and tells the wife to put up with her husband's abusive and violent behavior and actions. He must have become the patron saint of macho men. No one wonder we had so many marital problems in the Church. If he ever said anything today like what he wrote in the past, the feminists would crucify him. With this kind of mentality that he promotes, is it any surprise that films and books like the Da Vinci code come around?
Father Anthony Mellace
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