19TH FRIDAY HOMILY IN ORDINARY TIME — YEAR B

19TH FRIDAY HOMILY IN ORDINARY TIME — YEAR B

HOMILY THEME: TWO BECOME ONE

BY: Bishop Gerald M. Musa

Ezek 16:1-15, 60, 63; Psalm (Isaiah 12); Matt 19:3-12

Wise people say, “A happy man marries the girl he loves, but a happier man loves the girl he marries.” This implies that the happiest person is one who continues to love their spouse through every condition of life.

The Pharisees held a flawed understanding of marriage, seeing it as a contract that could be easily dissolved. Jesus challenged this view by reminding them of the original divine intent for marriage: “Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one'” (Matthew 19:4-5). Jesus emphasized that marriage is a sacred union between a man and a woman, with a focus on unity. He did not say that three, four, five, or six people become one flesh, but rather that the two become one flesh.

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The Church teaches that the two essential properties of marriage are *Unity* and *Indissolubility*. Unity means that in marriage, the husband and wife become one, and Indissolubility means that they form an unbreakable bond that lasts throughout their life, a bond that no one can dissolve. The stronger their relationship with God, the stronger their union becomes.

Do we remember the saying, “A family that prays together stays together?”

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