Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (Homily)
October 04, 2015 5:00 pm · Father David Mbimadong
Today the first reading and the gospel speak of man and woman in marital relationship. The first reading made us to understand that when God created the man alone, he felt quite lonely. And though God made other animals and brought them to him to see whether he could find meaning in them, he found nothing. But when God took the rib of the man and made a woman for him, he said, this at last is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. God made a help mate for him.
In the Gospel, the Pharisees came to test Jesus. And when they tested Him, He really found an occasion to teach every one of us what God means marriage to be. It is a vocation that is a life long institution or a vocation that last for life. When people want to enter into marriage, they are urged to study each other very well, and know if they will be able to stay together with one another. Christ did not mince words when the Pharisees asked him whether it was lawful that a man should divorce his wife. He in turn asked the Pharisees what did Moses tell you, what do you have in your commandments. They said Moses agreed that we should make a writ, we should write a writ of divorce and let her go. He said it was because of the hardness of your hearts. You were obstinate and wouldn't listen. That was why Moses made it so for you. Otherwise from the beginning, God made them male and female, man and woman for each other. And what God has put together, no human being should tear into pieces.