‘What is more striking: a woman healed from a tumour or a father, happy with his baby without the mother?’ Sunday Reflections, 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
Servant of God Chiara Corbella Petrillo (9 January 1984 - 13 June 2012) [Photo from official website ] Readings (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland) Readings (New American Bible: Philippines, USA) Gospel Mark 10:2-16 or 10:2-12 (English Standard Version Anglicised: India) And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” And in the house the disciples