Mark 10:1-12

On this last day of February, the evangelist Mark speaks to us about the indissolubility of marriage.

While Jesus was teaching the crowds, the Pharisees asked Him if it was lawful for a man to divorce his wife, on the pretext that Moses had permitted a husband to write a bill of divorce and dismiss her.

Jesus told the Pharisees that Moses wrote them that commandment because of hardness of their hearts, reminding them that, from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female and that, for this reason, a man would leave his father and his mother and the two would become one flesh. In such a way that they would no longer be two, but one flesh. And Jesus concluded by saying that what God has joined together, no human being must separate!

At home, questioned by the disciples about this, Jesus said that whoever divorces and marries again commits adultery.

Jesus returns to the Creator's original intention, in which marriage is based on the love that unites a man and a woman. Love is sacred and, therefore, is for life and indissoluble. Marriage is the sacrament through which God, through the Church, blesses the couple so that they may love with eternal love.

In today's world, unfortunately, love has been trivialized. To deal with this, men and women must be sufficiently prepared to understand and accept the sacredness of conjugal love, lived in absolute fidelity.

However, if divorce is inevitable, men and women must be welcomed by the members of the Church, instead of being judged. They must continue to participate in Mass, making spiritual communion, without receiving the Eucharist.

It is worth remembering that dioceses, through their Ecclesiastical Tribunal, can declare marriages that were celebrated improperly null and void, allowing divorced people to marry in the Church. It is important not to omit this timely information from the faithful.