Support Confirmation of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh
(Knights of Columbus)
- De facto approval of abortion by Catholic hospitals and parishes? (9/26/18)
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"we can imagine the people falling silent as the Pharisees pushed through the crowds to Jesus.
All heads must have turned and waited with suspense as they baited the trap: 'Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?'....
All heads must have turned and waited with suspense as they baited the trap: 'Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?'....
"God’s primary plan for marriage was to be an image of His own love, and it was, therefore, to be both permanent and exclusive....
"His critics could not help but be silenced when He quoted from Genesis: 'This is why a man must leave father and mother and the two become one flesh.'
"Even the disciples, wise enough to wait, questioned Jesus further when they were alone. This was a hard teaching and one not well-lived at the time. But the Lord only put further emphasis on his point: Divorce and remarriage is equal to adultery. Period. Perhaps the disciples could not see past their own brokenness and weakness to see Who was speaking to them and what He had done for marriage. It was Jesus Himself who had made marriage into a sacrament, Who had forever bound Himself up in the marriage covenant, and Who, by grace, had made this permanent, selfless kind of love possible.
"Jesus came not only to re-establish the original intention of God for marriage, but to restore marriage....
"this Gospel seems to end with a change in subject. Or does it? Jesus asks that the children be allowed to come to Him, and thus, He places before us not only the fruit of marriage, 'olive plants around the table,' but the weakest ones that the bond of marriage is designed to protect.
"May we be transformed — restored — by the grace of Jesus and allow Him to elevate our capacity to love beyond our own weakness and into a reflection of His own" (Claire Dwyer, National Catholic Register).
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