Scripture Reflections for the Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Year B, Lectionary 140
Our Triune God exists in relationship between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. From that essence of love God creates the cosmos, Earth, and living creatures. In creating humanity we are also meant to participate in communion with God and each other resulting in an overflow of love to our children and community. The Pharisees excluded the value of women in the marriage while the disciples tried to exclude the presence of children. Jesus rejects both limitations and instead emphasizes the inclusion and value of all.
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“The institution of marriage is not a human institution, it's not merely a human institution. It's a divine institution which God himself has ordained from the dawn of creation.”
“So whenever we come across questions, whenever we come across decisions that we need to make, the way out is go back to the scriptures. How did God plan it originally?”
“You see, once a rib had been taken from the side of the man, he was no longer whole or complete. When does he become whole and complete again? When he and the woman become one. Not just physically but spiritually, emotionally, psychologically.”
“If we could understand that this is not for us to exploit but to cultivate, that we are called to be in relationship with one another, yes, with God most definitely but also with all of the created order”
“And indeed this is the teaching of the Church, that God dwells in family life, that God dwells in your home, in your marriage”
“No matter what your call may be, you're called to be a person of unity, to bring folks together. That's what leaders do.”
“So although I may not have been married, I've seen enough families prosper because they focused on God and I've seen many families being destroyed because they were consumed by the world and filled with hatred”
“So these back-to-back incidents does not only reflect Jesus's frustration with the cold-hearted men he was conversing with, they reflect his own tender heart's concern for the powerless and the marginalized. Who are the people we dismiss?”
“God's hope in creation, if we can call it hope, was that the love of human beings together would be unifying and life-affirming and respond to the need that we all have to be loved”
“What's our mission? To make disciples, that is followers of Jesus, following, who make disciples”
“And this is what marriage can do for each one of us, that your answering your vocation will call out the most Christ-like self out of you”
