Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate

24 MAY (Mk 10,1-12)

The will of God on the project man – woman is contained in the first pages of Genesis. It is a pure, perfect and holy thought. Man and woman are carriers of a great mystery. To them the Lord gave the government of the world, as well as the mandate to fill the earth with their descendants. We breath all the charity of God for us.
Then God said: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and the cattle, and over all the wild animals and all the creatures that crawl on the ground.” God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them, saying: “Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that move on the earth.” (Gen 1,26-28).

The Lord God said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him.” So the Lord God formed out of the ground various wild animals and various birds of the air, and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them; whatever the man called each of them would be its name. The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of the air, and all the wild animals; but none proved to be the suitable partner for the man. 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.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body. (Gen 2,18-24).

Unfortunately, sin came into the world and with it the death of the spirit of man and also of his body. Mind, heart, will, spirit, feelings, thoughts and desires have become ungovernable. Man is the prisoner of vice. In this situation of real death, man no longer governs himself according to truth, but according to falsehood. Moses saw the poor spiritual condition of man and granted him the divorce, due to serious reasons.

“When a man, after marrying a woman and having relations with her, is later displeased with her because he finds in her something indecent, and therefore he writes out a bill of divorce and hands it to her, thus dismissing her from his house: if on leaving his house she goes and becomes the wife of another man, and the second husband, too, comes to dislike her and dismisses her from his house by handing her a written bill of divorce; or if this second man who has married her, dies; then her former husband, who dismissed her, may not again take her as his wife after she has become defiled. That would be an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring such guilt upon the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you as a heritage. (Dt 24,1-4).

In fact, at the time of Jesus there was no law any more. Everything was left to the free will of man, that could divorce at will. He was the Lord, the woman his slave.

He set out from there and went into the district of Judea (and) across the Jordan. Again crowds gathered around him and, as was his custom, he again taught them. 1 The Pharisees approached and asked, “Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?” They were testing him. He said to them in reply, “What did Moses command you?” They replied, “Moses permitted him to write a bill of divorce and dismiss her.” But Jesus told them, “Because of the hardness of your hearts he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother (and be joined to his wife), and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate.” In the house the disciples again questioned him about this. He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

Jesus came to change the statute of human nature. A new statute needs a new law. The new heart of man cannot live on indissolubility. Who does not live is because he has returned to his old heart, of sin; a dead heart.

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels and Saints make us with a new heart.