27th Sunday in Ordinary Time - B. " ' Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?' "
There are some teachings of Jesus which are just hard sayings. Forgive and love your enemies. Rejoice when you are persecuted. Only through the cross is eternal life. And, marriage is for a lifetime, no escape clauses. In every age and century this has been resisted, with some Christian churches giving in to divorce, and some, like my own, using the law to wiggle around it. But the words are there in the gospels, in black and white. Better to preach it, and then add, "Hate the sin, love the sinner," and "Let the children come to me." Nobody said following the Lord Jesus was easy.
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