Today's Reflections
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Mt 19:3-12
3Some Pharisees approached [Jesus], and tested him, saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatever?” 4He said in reply, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’ 5and
said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be
joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being must separate.” 7They said to him, “Then why did Moses command that the man give the woman a bill of divorce and dismiss [her]?” 8He
said to them, “Because of the hardness of your hearts Moses allowed you
to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
9I say to you, whoever divorces his wife (unless the marriage is unlawful) and marries another commits adultery.” 10[His] disciples said to him, “If that is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.” 11He answered, “Not all can accept [this] word, but only those to whom that is granted. 12Some
are incapable of marriage because they were born so; some, because they
were made so by others; some, because they have renounced marriage for
the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Whoever can accept this ought to
accept it.”
Reflection:
Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?
We must always remember that God is the author of marriage and God
means it to last till the end. God never instituted divorce or
separation after marriage.
In
marriage, God wills and chooses a person to be your lifetime marital
partner. He wants that this person should be your spouse for the rest of
your life. It is God who plans that you meet and grow in love. Marriage
must be built on love. In love relationship, partners must be God’s
gift to each other. A marriage fails when love has ceased to exist among
the partners. A marriage fails when God is pushed out of the picture,
and human selfishness or egoism sets in.
How is my love for my family?
How do I cultivate the sense of the presence of God in the family?
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