Our parish uses a great communications product, Flocknote. If you are not aware of the product, I would highly recommend considering it and taking it out for a test drive. Recently they published “Ten Guiding Principles” upon which they operate their business and lives. Would that we all lived like this every day and in every endeavor!
This coming Sunday is the 27th in Ordinary Time of Year B. The gospel is taken from Mark 10:2-12 and involves a question about divorce whose real intent is to bring Jesus into conflict with what the Pharisees regard as the clear teaching of Holy Scripture. Jesus has answered the real question that the Pharisee had asked: not one about divorce, but one about authority. The disciples apparently did not pick up on the nuanced answer, and so “In the house the disciples again questioned him 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.” (Mark 10:9-11)
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