Thursday, August 12, 2010

19th Week, Ordinary Time, Friday, 13-08-10

Ezekiel 16:59-63 / Matthew 19:3-12

History is important because it recalls past events that involved people.

Although it was about the past, it is nonetheless a factual reality that had happened, and not some fiction of imagination.

History also reminds us of our origins, the way we were and how much we have grown and progressed.

And very often, history points to our humble past and that makes us appreciate our present achievements and progress.

In the 1st reading, it was God who was reminding His chosen people of their past.

Once they were slaves, they could be hardly called a people at all, and yet God made them His chosen people.

God even made a covenant with His people, which was very much like a marriage covenant.

They grew and prospered but then later turned away from God. But God still pardoned them and even tried to bring them back to Himself.

So we can say that God is a faithful God and divorce is not in His vocabulary.

Jesus expressed this faithfulness of God in the gospel when He said that what God had united, man must not divide.

The early stages of marriage are usually rosy and blissful. But slowly the thorns arise and the wedlock becomes like a deadlock.

Yet faithfulness is the key to any deadlock and it is also helpful to recall how the love began and how it blossomed into a marital commitment.

If God was at the beginning of a love relationship, then He will be faithful in it right to the end.