Promoting the Sanctity of Life and the Sanctity of Marriage/Family/Human Sexuality (Pentecost Sunday update)
About Today's First & Gospel Readings
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As per today's magnificently beautiful first reading:
When he [the Lord God] brought her to the man, the man said:
"This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called 'woman, ' for out of 'her man’ this one has been taken."
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one flesh.
As per Jesus in today's Gospel,
"Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her;and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."
Based upon a poorly worded and misleading announcement in my own weekly bulletin, it appears that Jesus' message about marriage and its permanence are not being taken seriously:
We would certainly never see church advertisements for how a priest can be laicized! Why is anyone in the Archdiocese failing to properly recognize the plague that is divorce? As per the Catechism,
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Joe Tevington is a proudly orthodox Catholic, a husband since 1986, a dad to two married adult children, a grandpa to two, and a civil service retiree. He is a sign language fluent certified rehabilitation counselor with graduate degrees in deafness rehabilitation, religious studies/moral theology, & Christian counseling psychology, as well as a catechetical diploma and certificates in benefits planning and Catholic social ministry. He deeply appreciates Catholic teaching on the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of the transmission of human life, as well as how they are to inform us in our apostolates and ministries.
On much lighter notes, he fancies himself to be the foremost authority on his native Brooklyn, when it comes to architecture, geography, history, Italian food, Saturday Night Fever, stick ball, stoop ball, or wiffle ball.
