Our Lord Jesus Christ: Lover of Women

I have come to see our Lord Jesus Christ as the absolute, perfect lover of women. He is, after all, the Bridegroom to His bride the Church...a title that is largely ignored by most of us. He loves us, his bride, with a love that is uber-virile, ultra-masculine, infinitely-paternal, and endlessly gentle, sensitive, strong, tender, heroic, brotherly, and husbandly. His personal love for me, a man, is husbandly and mine for him, even in my own masculinity, is always primarily bridal-feminine in that it is receptive, responsive, inviting, welcoming, and grateful. This reality is deep, mystical and not easily accessible to the average guy. What is more concrete, practical and realistic though is the fact that Jesus himself loved women so marvelously. It is endlessly inspiring to contemplate his relationships (a good word, relationship): the woman caught in adultery, the one who washed his feet with her hair, Mary and Martha, the polyandrist Samaritaness, Veronica, the women at the foot of the cross, and of course, his mother. His love is reverent, chaste, appreciative, supportive, generous, pure,steadfast, admiring, sensitive,and gentle yet strong. He is blissfully free of disrespect, possessiveness, domination, lust, resentment, covetousness, and insensitivity. He is NOT like the rest of us men. And so, especially when I eat His body and drink His blood, I ask him to fill me with this marvelous love for women.