Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (Homily)
October 04, 2015 11:00 am · Sergio Muñoz Fita
As you know, Pope Francis was here in the United States last week to participate in the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia. In Washington D.C. addressing the United States Congress, the Holy Father said, "How essential the family has been to the building of this country! And how worthy it remains of our support and encouragement! Yet I cannot hide my concern for the family, which is threatened, perhaps as never before, from within and without. Fundamental relationships are being called into question, as is the very basis of marriage and the family."
A day later, in New York, speaking at the United Nations General Assembly, he asked all the peoples of the Earth to recognize the natural law and said, "written into human nature itself, one which includes the natural difference between man and woman, and absolute respect for life in all its stages and dimensions." That sacred law is explained in a beautiful and theological way in today's first reading. The solitude of the first man that could not be fill by the entire created world. Adam's joy as he sees the woman for the first time. Bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh. That becoming one flesh all speak about the mystery of the human heart as it is created by God.
