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I saw three properties (of creatures):
the first is, that God made it;
the second is, that God loveth it;
the third is, that God keepeth it.
But what beheld I therein?
Verily, the Maker, the Keeper, the Lover.
- Julian of Norwich
(Spend some time resting in the confidence that God's love creates and sustains you in existence moment-by-moment.)
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SIR 6:5-17; PS 119:12, 16, 18, 27, 34, 35
MK10:1-12
Jesus came into the district of Judea and across the Jordan.
Again crowds gathered around him and, as was his custom,
he again taught them.
The Pharisees approached him and asked,
"Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?"
They were testing him.
He said to them in reply, "What did Moses command you?"
They replied,
"Moses permitted a husband to write a bill of divorce
and dismiss her."
But Jesus told them,
"Because of the hardness of your hearts
he wrote you this commandment.
But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother
and be joined to his wife,
and the two shall become one flesh.
So they are no longer two but one flesh.
Therefore what God has joined together,
no human being must separate."
In the house the disciples again questioned Jesus about this.
He said to them,
“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another
commits adultery against her;
and if she divorces her husband and marries another,
she commits adultery.”
USCCB lectionary
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"Therefore let no man separate what God has joined." —Mark 10:9
If Jesus is not God, He has not saved us by His death on the cross and Christianity is false. Yet we know that Jesus is God because:
- He rose from the dead by His own power, and only God can do that (see Rm 1:4).
- Jesus' disciples are living in a holiness, freedom, and purity which is humanly impossible. Only God can make us new creations.
Prayer: Father, make Christian marriages masterpieces and divine signs.
Promise: "For he who fears God behaves accordingly, and his friend will be like himself." —Sir 6:17
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Abandonment to Divine Providence
- by Jean-Pierre de Caussade
CHAPTER II. THE DIVINE ACTION WORKS UNCEASINGLY FOR THE SANCTIFICATION OF SOULS.
SECTION V. The Action of Jesus Christ in the Souls of Men
The divine action continues to write in the hearts of men the work begun by the holy Scriptures, but the characters made use of in this writing will not be visible till the day of judgment.
“Teach me, divine Spirit, to read in this book of life. I desire to become Your disciple and, like a little child, to believe what I cannot understand, and cannot see. Sufficient for me that it is my Master who speaks. He says that! He pronounces this! He arranges the letters in such a fashion! He makes Himself heard in such a manner! That is enough. I decide that all is exactly as He says. I do not see the reason, but He is the
infallible truth, therefore all that He says, all that He does is true. He groups His letters to form a word, and different letters again to form another word. There may be three only, or six; then no more are necessary, and fewer would destroy the sense. He who reads the thoughts of men is the only one who can bring these letters together, and write the words. All has meaning, all has perfect sense. This line ends here because He makes it do so. Not a comma is missing, and there is no
unnecessary full-stop. At present I believe, but in the glory to come when so many mysteries will be revealed, I shall see plainly what now I so little understand.
Then what appears to me at present so intricate, so perplexing, so foolish, so inconsistent, so imaginary, will all be entrancing and will delight me eternally by the beauty, order, knowledge, wisdom, and the incomprehensible wonders it will all display.”
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