Gospel: Mark
10:1-12
Jesus
came into the district of Judea and across the Jordan. Again crowds gathered
around him and, as was his custom, he again taught them. The Pharisees
approached him and asked, “Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?”
They were testing him. He said to them in reply, “What did Moses command you?”
They replied, “Moses permitted a husband to write a bill of divorce and dismiss
her.” But Jesus told them, “Because of the hardness of your hearts he 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. Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must
separate.” In the house the disciples again questioned Jesus about this. He
said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery
against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits
adultery.”
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Reflection:
How is
your married life?
Many
marriages are successful, it last a lifetime. IF we would ask the couples about
the secret of their successful marriage they would normally tell us that God is
at the center of their marriage lives. When God is present in the lives of
couples the chance of betrayal is nil. There is also the equal presence of
Humility, Forgiveness, Patience and Love between husband and wife.
From the
very start the plan of God for married couples is to stay forever together. But
the sad reality is many couples are separated and separating and many couples
are betraying their vows of marriage.
Why is this happening? This is brought about
by our weak faith in God. We have no fear of God anymore that is why we easily
betray our sacred vows of marriage. We are not even anymore afraid of the negative
consequence of separation to our children.
We may
not know this but we are actually hurting ourselves and those we love whenever
we betray the sacred vows of marriage. We give ourselves and those we love
undeserved stress and problems. We also disturb the innocent minds of our
children, try asking a child if he wants his parents to separate he surely
would say no!
Whenever
we are tempted to betray our vows of marriage carefully think of the many aftershocks
that it will create in our lives. And the in the lives of those that we love
most especially the children. - Marino
J. Dasmarinas