Listen to the homily here.
Notes:
Notes:
Thank you for all of you who are married
· In a special way, we heard about marriage in the Scriptures today
Genesis 2—a soaked fill spirituality, theology and one of the original stories about marriage in the Bible
· “The LORD God said: ‘It is not good for the man [Adam] to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him.’”
· “So the LORD God cast a deep sleep on the man,and while he was asleep,he took out one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. The LORD God then built up into a woman the ribthat he had taken from the man.”
· "This one, at last, is bone of my bonesand flesh of my flesh;this one shall be called 'woman, 'for out of 'her man' this one has been taken."
Then we have a tough, but a truth teaching about marriage from Jesus Christ himself
· The Pharisees, who were following the Old Testament Law, asked Jesus about divorce
· “They were testing him.”
o They didn’t really care about divorce, but trying to trap Jesus
· But Jesus told them,
"Because of the hardness of your heartshe wrote you this commandment.
But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two but one flesh.
"Because of the hardness of your heartshe wrote you this commandment.
But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. So they are no longer two but one flesh.
· Then Jesus said: “He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries anothercommits adultery against her;and if she divorces her husband and marries another,
she commits adultery."
she commits adultery."
o This is a tough one, even for me
o In our country divorce is 50% of marriages and this is a serious conversation around our Catholics in our country
o And what do we do within our Catholic Church?
The challenge for thinking within the eyes for the Scriptures is that Jesus clearly stated what he said
So two things today
· First, praise God for marriage, an honor that you are witnesses to our culture, and an honor in my life as a celibate priest
o Thank you for your children!
· Second, pray, pray, pray if you have been divorced
o Please know of my prayers, God’s love, compassion and mercy
o And know that I would love to support and listen to your situation as life is neither a cakewalk, nor perfect and hopefully conversations would only support your life
o And praise God for your children!
o Divorce is tough, for yourself, your kids, your family
o And Jesus Christ is here for each of us
Wherever you are within marriage, know that God loves you, married or divorced and remarried, more than you can even love Him
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