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The Pastoral Epistles of Saint Paul
Talk by Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen), part 29, Colossians 3:18-4:18.
January 17, 2023

Topics include: 
(1) Husbands and wives: submission offered voluntarily for Christ's sake, a cooperation, a synergy offered to Christ. Husband's love leads to a loving wife, wife's submission leads to a husband willing to yield. Submission and love are ascetic acts of self-denial overcoming selfishness. The model is Christ's love for the Church, and the Church's loving submission to Him. This agape love holds the Christian community together and constitutes the Church; 
(2) Parents and children and obedience; 
(3) An extensive discussion of the horror of the "trans" movement for those involved, especially the children. The need for Christian parents to teach traditional Christian morality and to critique and reject distorted moral teachings.