(In God’s infinite wisdom and love, He instituted the sacrament of holy matrimony so that a man and woman can naturally unite themselves together with Him in love so as to live out their calling to procreate and lead one another to life in holiness. It is when they abandon Him or leave Him out of the equation that Sin takes hold, takes over.
Some are not called to this special sacramental life but to another unique and special calling. They too are never alone for our Lord, our God is with them always. All are called to love and live out chaste, holy lives according to our Father’s Will.
May we all continue to live out are various calling to love and serve Him in all the days of our lives. With Him, through Him and In Him, who lives and reigns with our Father and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen
GOSPEL
Matthew 19:3–12
Some Pharisees approached Jesus, and tested him, saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatever?” He said in reply, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female and 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? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, man must not separate.” They said to him, “Then why did Moses command that the man give the woman a bill of divorce and dismiss her?” He 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. I say to you, whoever divorces his wife (unless the marriage is unlawful) and marries another commits adultery.” His disciples said to him, “If that is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.” He answered, “Not all can accept this word, but only those to whom that is granted. Some 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.”
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