Archdiocesan Shrine and Parish of St. Jude Thaddeus, Naga City | v.3, n.41 | issn 2599-5030 | 7 to 13 October 2018
MARRIAGE ACCORDING TO GOD “M
y husband and I divorced over religious differences. He thought he was God and I didn’t.”
questions, he took them beyond Moses and his The readings for this Sunday speak of laws to “the beginning” of marriage. Instead of the religious view on marriage; to be more talking about what one can and what one precise, the Biblical view of marriage. The cannot, He spoke of what God can do. Gospel of Saint Mark opens up with the Marriage is not simply an agreement between legalistic question of the Pharisees, a man and a woman. It was God’s idea in the who asked Jesus a question meant first place when he created the to test Him. “Is it lawful for a SUNDAY husband to divorce his wife?” REFLECTION universe. Marriage is an ingredient of his bigger plan for the whole Pope Francis once described universe which is made evident in the Book of questions of this kind as casuistic. The Pharisees reduced the Christian life, the Genesis when He said: “It is not good for the way of following God, to a question of “yes, man to be alone.” In the creation account, all the rest of the creation, no matter how you can,” or “no, you can’t.” Christian life beautiful they were, did not suit well enough seems to be limited to what we should do for man. He needed a partner who is a and what we should not do. To understand coequal; one who is bone of his bones, and better the context of the question, one flesh of his flesh. He named her “woman”. should look at the practice of the Jews Their joining becomes a sacrament through regarding marriage. which God intend to bestow His blessings on While the Jews had a high ideal of the human family. By making it fruitful, God marriage, their practice was not. The wife filled the whole earth. In the same union, God was considered to be a husband’s property patterned His covenant with us. The Epistle of with no legal rights whatsoever. So, Moses Paul today hints that Jesus is the new Adam commanded the men at least to give the and the Church is the New Eve, the “woman” woman they were abandoning a certificate of divorce which stated: “She is not my wife born of Christ’s pierced side as He hung in the sleep of death on the Cross. and I am not her husband.” He would give Given this tremendous dignity of this paper to his wife and tell her to leave. Marriage, spouses are reminded to work They were then legally divorced. That way hard to be worthy of this Divine gift. she would at least be free to remarry. Without that certificate, technically she was Christians need to be attentive to the needs of spouses undergoing difficulties in still the property of her former husband. marriage. We need to be aware of the Moses was therefore trying, in a small way, dangers in the unstable union of to give women some protection. cohabitation which leaves out of the Jesus seized the opportunity to bring the equation, the author of Marriage itself. 4 small talk with the Pharisees to a higher level fr. francis a. tordilla of discourse. Instead of answering their
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marko 10:17-30 Domingo 28, Taon B
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nong gigibuhon ko tanganing mamana ko an buhay na daing kasagkuran” Sarong mayaman an nagdulok ki Jesus na nakaluhod. Igwa syang kapakumbabaan. Bilang mayaman, nakakasabot sya kan halaga kan mana. Kaya iyo man LECTIO ini saiyang hapot: kun DIVINA pàno sya makakamana kan pinaka-urog sa gabos, an buhay na daing kasagkuran. Totoong mapalad sya huli kan saiyang yaman. Tibaad pinalad sya huli ta inuutob nya an mga tugon kan Dyos. Dai sya nanggagadan; dai sya nagsasambay; dai sya naghahàbon; dai sya nandadaya. Dakul an mga Katoliko an siring. Sinda mga paladan huli ta dai sinda nagdadarang karibukan sa banwaan.
Nahihiling ko daw an sadiri kong mapalad?
“Sarong bagay an kulang saimo: Lakaw, ipabakal mo an gabos mong rugaring, tàwan sa mga dukha…” Tandaan na an mga tugon na nasambit dapit sana sa relasyon sa tawo. Dai digdi sinambit an dapit sa pagsamba sa Dyos asin pagsimba sa aldaw na Domingo. Kun sinambit ini ni Jesus, tibaad iba an simbag kan hoben na mayaman. Alagad, an nakakasindak sa gabos iyo an pagsabi ni Jesus na ipabakal kaini an gabos asin itao an kabaklan sa mga dukha. Dai man ini isinabi ni Jesus sa saiyang mga parasirang disipulo, na ipabakal ninda an saindang mga baroto asin an saidang mga harong. Nakidagos pa ngani si Jesus sa harong ni Pedro. Mamundo an mayaman huli ta dai nya kayang iribay an yaman para sa paglingkod sa Simbahan. Kasuarin ako nagbayà kan trabaho tanganing idusay an ko oras para sa Simbahan?
“Pasil pa sa kamelyo maglusot sa mata nin dagom kisa mayaman maglaog sa kahadean kan Dyos.” LECTIO / LAST PAGE