This morning October 7, 2018, after Mass, the feeling of contentment I feel follows from the realization that I have tried to understand and follow Jesus.teachings
It's not always easy, because the Gospel should be read knowing the historical situation of the environment and the spirit of the times in which it was written.
But today it is not possible to misunderstand: «But at the beginning of creation God created them male and female;
For this reason the man will leave his father and his mother and the two will be one flesh. So they are no longer two, but only one flesh ..... » .
Back at home, while I prepare the tray of medicines that my wife must take and the gadgets that she must use when she comes for breakfast, it occurs in my mind when I met her in 1965, even to be precise on December 31, 1964, and that next April 2019 I hope to celebrate our golden wedding.
I thank God for everything, despite problems and disagreements that never failed, the good that He sent us and the evil that He allowed to happen us.
But she and I have resisted everything, and we have always remedied everything, because we have always tried, perhaps even almost unconsciously, to listen to His voice and to do our duty, respecting the commitments that we had freely undertaken.
This is an indispensable condition for all coexistences to be possible and to continue over time.
EXEGESIS:
The comment is over, but if you still have a bit of patience going forward, I'll tell you something about my experience. If you have read the comment and if you want, you can read this too.
Householding is essential for the survival of a community. But nowadays, thanks also to the economic prosperity and the pernicious influence of atheistic materialism of sad memory, relativism, hedonism and the pursuit of pleasure at any cost have been propagated in our society .
Together with practical atheism, the exaggerated culture of the person rights and the disregard of duties, these factors have broken down our society.
The young people take care only of material aspects. Many, if they can they get married without knowing well their partner, if not they simply go to live together.
Divorce and abortion undermine the family by offering apparently easy exit routes to difficult situations; Confusion of sexes and mental illnesses cause facts that were once inadmissible and even heavily penalized.
As about my wife and me, when I retrace in my memory all this past time, I wonder if I have behaved like God wants.
I confess that during my life I have not always been perfect, but with the Grace of God I had the opportunity to recognize my mistakes and tried to avoid repeating them.
We both had the grace of being born in families where they taught us by their example the value of duties and promises, and above all they did not allow you to beat the slack, they did not accustom us to the superfluous.
So not only when we started dating, but even after a year, when we went to church and engaged to promise us loyalty, although the physical attraction was strong because of the hormones of youth, we never went beyond certain limits.
In fact, over time I realized that what attracted me to my future wife was not just sex, but the whole person and her qualities.
Now that our children have long since gone away and we are elderly, the consonance of ideas, faith, culture and feelings allow us to be happy and to continue to love each other despite the tremendous trials we have faced and passed together.
I hope that after the passage to the next life God will allow us to remain still her and I together for eternity.
| Since I am neither a religious nor a hermit, this is my way of listening and putting into practice the Word of God. I do not have the ambition or thought to do who knows what heroic acts or who knows what extraordinary things, but I try to to sanctify myself by fulfilling my duties faithfully in everyday life, which it is not a small thing, at least for me. And I accept what God sends, I accept everything, therefore also any wealth, or illness, or poverty, or even having or not having heavy responsibilities. And I hope above all to never lose the Faith that He has given to me. |
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Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 10,2-16.
2 The Pharisees approached and asked, "Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?"
They were testing him.
3 He said to them in reply, "What did Moses command you?"
4 They replied, "Moses permitted him to write a bill of divorce and dismiss her."
5 But Jesus told them, "Because of the hardness of your hearts he wrote you this commandment.
6 But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.
7 For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother (and be joined to his wife),
8 and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh.
9 Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate."
10 When at home the disciples again questioned him about this
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11 He said them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her;
12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."
13 And people were bringing children to him that he might touch them, but the disciples rebuked them.
14 When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them, "Let the children come to me; do not prevent them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
15 Amen, I say to you, whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it."
16 Then he embraced them and blessed them, placing his hands on them.
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