27th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B - What God Has Joined & “Ave Maria”

In this Sunday’s Gospel (Mk. 10:2-16), the Pharisees try to trap Jesus with a trick question. The “lawfulness” of divorce in Israel was never an issue as Moses had long ago allowed it. But Jesus points his enemies back before Moses, to “the beginning,” interpreting the text we hear in today’s First Reading (Gen 2:18-24). Divorce violates the order of creation, Jesus says. Moses permitted it only as a concession to the people’s “hardness of heart”—their inability to live by God’s covenant Law.

Jesus comes to fulfill the Law, to reveal its true meaning and purpose, and to give people the grace to keep God’s commands. Marriage, he reveals, is a sacrament, a divine, life-giving sign. Through the union of husband and wife, God intended to bestow His blessings on the human family—making it fruitful, multiplying it until it filled the earth. That’s why today’s Gospel moves so easily from a debate about marriage to Jesus’ blessing of children.

Marriage is also a sign of God’s new covenant. As today’s Epistle (Heb 2:9-11) hints, Jesus is the new Adam—made a little lower than the angels, born of a human family. The Church is the new Eve, the “woman” born of Christ’s pierced side as he hung in the sleep of death on the Cross. Through the union of Christ and the Church as “one flesh,” God’s plan for the world is fulfilled. Eve was “mother of all the living” and in Baptism, we are made sons and daughters of the Church, children of the Father, heirs of the eternal glory He intended for the human family in the beginning.

The challenge for us is to live as children of the kingdom, growing up ever more faithful in our love and devotion to the ways of Christ and the teachings of his Church.

In honor of October as the month of the Holy Rosary, we present our latest video, “Ave Maria (Hail Mary Song)”, a beautiful composition by Daniel Kantor and based on the famous prayer to the Mother of Jesus Christ, drawing from Luke 1:42.

Video can be watched by clicking here or on the picture below: