Part of my unofficial Poll on Sunday's Readings...

OK, Here is another example of what I mean when I say little or nothing is said on the ONE time per three year cycle about DIVORCE in our pulpits, and it does irritate me. NOTE the tiny paragraph devoted to what MOST of the reading was about, as well as the FIRST reading for that day...and note that MOST of the 'reflection' is devoted to FOUR VERSES of ONE READING. He devotes four paragraphs to those four verses in a message we could hear ANY SUNDAY of the year.

Sad, isn't it? Very sad. Whom would you offend by speaking Truth? Not those who are still married. Not those who pray constantly that the Church will begin to speak Truth ONE SUNDAY OUT OF THREE YEARS!!

Not those who FOLLOW the Church teachings on Marriage being indissoluble... the ones that will/may be offended JUST MAY BE those who need to hear it the most!

Fr. Kevin O'Sullivan, O.F.M. writes:

Sunday Readings
The first reading is taken from the Book of Genesis, 2:18-24, "So the Lord God cast a deep sleep on the man, and while he was asleep, he took out one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. The Lord God then built up into a woman the rib that he had taken from the man. When he 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.'" This reading has been chosen to show the origin of the Church's teaching on the indissolubility of marriage.

The second reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews, 2:9-11, "He who 'for a little while' was made 'lower than the angels', that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone." Today's reading talks about Jesus' exaltation through abasement.

The Gospel is from St. Mark, 10:2-16. On the "divorce" section of this Gospel see today's first reading. Christ clearly states that from the very beginning, God's plan for marriage was that it should be a life-long unity of one man and one woman. Its purpose is the procreation of children and their education, as well as the mutual love and fulfillment of the husband and wife. These demand this life-long bond. Divorce, which tries to break this bond, breaks the law of the Creator who decreed what was best for the temporal and spiritual welfare of the human race.

The last four verses of today's Gospel describe an incident which is in no way connected with the previous discussion but which has a very useful lesson for all Christians. Cont reading here....

If you cannot read it there, I have it in its entirety. Sadly, these priests think that they are giving us fine words to live by. Do they not know that we need to hear the TRUTH spoken, even on hard topics?

"MY PEOPLE PERISH FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE!!" Hosea 4:6.