TODAYS REFLECTION 7TH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME FRI MAY 20

TODAYS REFLECTION 7TH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME FRI MAY 20 ( Jas 5:9-12, Mk 10:1-12 )

#BEPATIENTWITHONEANOTHERANDLETOURLOVEBEFAITHFUL#

Friends todays first reading admonishes us not to swear by anything since we have no control over anything but ourselves but only to say and to mean, yes or no. It further challenges us to patient perseverance in our essential commitments.  It requires each of us to take our own voice, and our behavior enacting that voice, very seriously indeed.

Ushering us into the gospel message today St James writes; it is required us to see that the foundation of marriage is faithful self-donation on the part of each of the spouses to an irrevocable spoken “yes” to relationship that flows from, and participates in, God’s work of salvation through perfectly irrevocable mercy. Human beings also want to be loved deeply and forever. We do not want to be used, "dumped," and rejected.

In todays gospel, Jesus announced that divorce is no longer necessary. He is God and is able to change our human nature so that we can fulfill our legitimate needs. Baptized into Jesus, we can love deeply and forever. The life and marriage we want are now possible. Christ's salvation and our Baptism into Him makes divorce obsolete and matrimony holy, not harmful. Accept Jesus as the Saviour of your marriage and your life. May through our prayers today broken marriges be repaired and May the the love of Christ as the foundation of their lifes. Have a blase weekend