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:
What if there’s no divorce? There would be no breakup of marriage, there would be no suffering children and there would be no hurting spouses.
Married couples who separate are only concerned for
their own welfare and for their own fleeting and false happiness. They don’t care what will happen
to their child/children who are the main casualty the moment parents separate.
Beneath the opposition of Jesus to divorce is His
command for couples to persevere in their marriage. HE commands us to always
remember the vows of marriage whenever we are tempted to betray it or walk away
from it. He commands us to accept the fact that marriage is not
always a bed of roses.
For the reason that there is no perfect marriage,
there would also be thorny episodes in marriage. So the couple must stay no
matter what their difficulties are. The couple must learn to adjust and sometimes
bend in humility for the marriage to grow, bear fruit and succeed.
Incompatibility is not the reason why couples separate;
it’s rather the lack of humility, the stubbornness to respect
the sacred vows of the marriage covenant and the lack of active prayer life inside the
marriage.
Just imagine if both husband and wife learns to
imbibe humility. Just imagine if there
is an active presence of prayer life inside the marriage. And just
imagine if both spouses would learn to respect the sacred vows of marriage no matter the temptation that may come their way. –
Marino J. Dasmarinas
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