Wednesday, 20th Wk: "am I not free to do as I wish"

Are you envious because I am generous?’
Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last.

-- Mt 20:1-16

Each of the two sexes is an image of the power and tenderness of God, with equal dignity though in a different way. The union of man and woman in marriage is a way of imitating in the flesh the Creator's generosity and fecundity: "Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh." All human generations proceed from this union.

-- CCC 2335

Sacred Scripture and the Church's traditional practice see in large families a sign of God's blessing and the parents' generosity.

-- CCC 2373