27th Sunday in Ordinary time of the year B 07-10-12

27th Sunday of the Year B 07-10-12 Theme: God creates everything for our good. 1st Reading Genesis 2:18-24 God creates a helpmate for man. 2nd Reading Hebrews 2:9-11 Jesus shares every thing with us Gospel Mark 10:2-16 Permanence of Marriage according to Jesus. The church asks us to be aware of our faith by this wonderful grace. The faith God has given to us in the families is active and alive through the practice of our faith. The Year of faith is announced today on this day when we celebrate the mission Sunday. When the whole church celebrated the feast of the little flower’s feast day she was raised to be the patroness of the missionaries We see only when the negative is connected to the positive light appears. When the North-pole is joined to the South-pole there is attraction. We see nature has two opposites. The Yin Yen of the being. The male female of creation of all kinds is a mystery which the philosophers have tried to unravel. The animate and inanimate has opposite. This is the reality of creation These are natural phenomenon teaching us that God has meant these to exist side by side with the other realities of life. The creation right from the beginning is created in this form for its substance. Today when we try to reflect on the reality of marital bond in human existence, both woman and man is essential for its continuity. The union of the couple enters in a special covenant with the living Lord Jesus. For us Christians marriage is not defined simply in terms of legal contract between husband and wife. It is a covenant with Christ, a permanent agreement involving promises made by the couple to protect those united with him. This is why marriage is a sacrament of unity and consecration to life where wedding vows constitute an act of worship. These exchanges of marriage vows are public and become realities of lifelong commitment. They cannot be broken whatever the cause. Therefore this vow is indissoluble. In the present secular thinking, most of the values of society are questioned by reasoning people without realizing the importance of God’s presence in their lives. In each of us there is a wee bit of this little voice placed in the depth of human mind which keeps on shouting to the right thing at the right time. People seek easy pleasures due to constant influence of media, which is only passing and transitory and makes them unhappy and dissatisfied. There is always a sense of guilt. Therefore there is a kind of justification sought in the form of cheap media propaganda and advertisement. We are influenced by this the whole day through the TV and Radio propaganda. The supernatural law which is engraved in the hearts of man and woman allows the human beings to rise to protect what is good and valuable. In recent times when there have been laws that have been enacted to give seeming semblance to unnatural union between two same sex realities. Some even call reality as true, quoting some research on human behavior that had been tarnished already from the beginning. It is like a human being raised in the company of animals as animal never associated with human behavior. It is possible to create such unnatural behaviors by human control. Then why are doubts at these unions are raised? We seen in any situation any God’s law that is broken brings with it a creeping doubt if what I do is right or wrong. This inner sense is ingrained in our conscience, by God himself. Therefore in today’s reading we see the old and new testament had upheld the reality of marriage bond between man and woman. This union became a reality in the lives of man and woman they even had the right to leave their parents to begin their own unit in the society. As believers today we require to reestablish the sanctity of this bond. Where man and woman in marriage bond has to understand, appreciate, respect, love, care, forgive, forget, live in harmony, communicate, share etc. only then will this bond become binding and lasting. All the developments cannot undo the reality of natural and supernatural. Let us hope we are able to bring about the lasting joy in the lives of people who seek the marriage bond even today. Those young who seek to live this bond searching for a life partner happy married union. Those that have already been married for many years a happy and contented married life. May God bless you, In union with the divine word, Fr.Juze Vaz svd