I attended the wedding of my niece and during his sermon, the priest prayed: “Lord, bless her womb with fruitfulness and grant this union the gift of children.”
I must confess I felt very uncomfortable when he did not also pray: “Lord, bless him also with the health and vitality to be a fruitful partner in bringing forth new life.”
It reminded me of a deeply ingrained cultural assumption in our society: when a marriage does not produce children, suspicion often falls first, and sometimes exclusively, on the woman.
Yet medical science and centuries of experience tell us that infertility can arise from either partner. In fact, many couples spend years focusing on the woman, only to discover much later that the challenge lies with the man, who’d been firing blanks all years long. Sometimes they realise it when valuable time has already been lost.
Our language, prayers, jokes and social expectations often unconsciously reinforce the notion that childbearing is solely the woman’s responsibility. It is not!
If we are going to pray for fruitfulness in marriage, we should pray equally for healthy wombs and healthy seeds, for both husband and wife to be blessed with the ability to bring children into the world.
The burden, after all, should not rest on one partner alone.
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