(By Fr. Luis Tamayo)Today’s Gospel (Mk 10, 2-12) is not so easy to understand in our days where more often relationships don’t last, and with a lot of pain families fall apart and marriages are broken. The question about divorce is at hand and everyone blames the Church saying we are far away from reality.
Before this reading I will invite you not to remain in the surface but to go into a deeper level of understanding the Scripture. When Jesus is asked “Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?; Other synonyms: Is it proper, licit, rightful or legal for a husband to divorce his wife?” Jesus answers with something that called me the attention. Jesus said: From the beginning of creation God made them male and female… Jesus goes back to the beginning of creation to give an answer to such complicated question.
What is the meaning of going back to the beginning of creation to give an answer to this question? It seems like Jesus is going around to give me an answer… what time is it? The weather is sunny… it doesn’t make sense…
But doing so, Jesus is trying to pull us out of the surface of the problem to bring us to the root of the question, to the very beginning. Before answering to the question let me bring you to the beginning of everything, the beginning where God created man and woman.
According to the Scripture, at the very beginning God didn’t talk about the contract of marriage, but He spoke about love, the Scripture says: They will be united, they will become one, He will join his wife…
Going back to the beginning is to go back to the depths of the heart, is to go to the roots of our life, to the origin of our feelings… and there we shall find the authentic question: Do you believe in LOVE? Do you believe in the existence of LOVE in capital words? Do you believe in true LOVE?
I do believe in true LOVE, because I have experienced it myself.
Love is life, without love there is no life. Without love something is lacking, it is like a garden with no flowers. Love gives the meaning to live, gives the strength to get up, gives the energy to work everyday.
Love is able to turn someone’s life up side down. Love is capable to change the life of anyone. Love can lead you to live far away from home… Isn’t it true?
When Love is authentic is true Love. When Love is sincere is unconditional. When Love is clean it doesn’t fail, it doesn’t put an end, it doesn’t doubt, it doesn’t fall short.
Human love can be so sincere and beautiful, that is what I have experienced from a close friend of mine, or even above all, our parent’s love… Is there anything else more beautiful than the love of a mother? But sincerely, even this kind of human love, beautiful and clean as it is, it also is meant to fail.
The only true Love comes from God; the rest is a mere reflection of God’s love. God is Love, says the Sacred Scripture. God is the Source, and from the source comes down the authentic love, patience, compassion, kindness, gentleness, benevolence, etc. It is from God alone that I receive His pure Love, no polluted, no impure. His divine Love that we all can receive form the Eucharist, from the silence of prayer, from the sacrament of reconciliation…
Now, the most important question is not the first one: Is it proper for a husband to divorce his wife?, but the most important question to ask is Do you know this kind of Love? Is it lawful to live and ignore this kind of Love? You are invited to know, to experience this authentic Love of God.
The ignorance of this unconditional Love will threat you always with divorce, separation, or division. That is the reason why Jesus will answer going to the beginning… going to the first question… to the most basic question. Do you believe in God’s love? Then, you got the answer…
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