This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This sentence of Adam so
emphatic and clear, and even a little poetic, I think it would have to be the
way in which a man describes his wife, and a woman describes her husband: “bone
of my bones and flesh of my flesh”. All
that stupid and futile discussion of whether women are better than men, or if
men must subdue women, the only thing that has been achieved is to disfigure
the idea of man and woman, and deeply hurt the concept of Christian marriage. What
is the idea that our young people have of marriage today? The one presented by
Hollywood: “choose whoever you want, and stay there while you have a good
sexual chemistry, or while you're not bored; When that moment comes, you can
go; People like sentimental relationships are totally disposable”. What have we
done about marriage? What have we done about human sexuality? Why have we taken
it out of the sacred context where it was created by God? Perhaps the origin of
all the misfortunes that we are living today, come from here, from the fact
that we have desacralized human sexuality, trivializing people. All of us here
have a sexuality, and we should not feel embarrassed about it, but we cannot
sublimate it and put it on a table to show off. Sexuality must be in place, and
that place is marriage, in our case, Christian marriage. When we take it out of
there, everything begins to decompose. Sexuality is not bad, but when it is
neglected, it affects and shakes everything else. It is one thing to be
understanding of human weakness and the complexities of life, and another to
accept ideologies that attempt to sunder what are inseparable aspects of
reality. Let us not fall into the sin of trying to replace the Creator. We are
creatures, and not omnipotent. Creation is prior to us and must be received as a
gift. At the same time, we are called to protect our humanity, and this means,
in the first place, accepting it and respecting it as it was created: man and
woman, called to form a family[1]. It
is a difficult and dark outlook, yes, nevertheless, as the Holy Father Francis
says, «We should not be trapped
into wasting our energy in doleful laments, but rather seek new forms of
missionary creativity. In every situation that presents itself, the Church is
conscious of the need to offer a word of truth and hope… The great values of
marriage and the Christian family correspond to a yearning that is part and
parcel of human existence”[2]. Where
is the beginning of the solution? In Jesus. He is the only one who can make all
things new. He is the only one who has the power to transform hearts, structures,
people, institutions, ideologies. Let's not turn our backs on Jesus. Let's not
leave it out of our plans. The example of Jesus is a paradigm for the Church…
He began his public ministry with the miracle at the wedding feast of Cana[3].
He shared in everyday moments of friendship with the family of Lazarus and his sisters[4]
and with the family of Peter[5].
He sympathized with grieving parents and restored their children to life[6].
In this way he demonstrated the true meaning of mercy, which entails the
restoration of the covenant[7].
This is clear from his conversations with the Samaritan woman[8] and
with the woman found in adultery[9],
where the consciousness of sin is awakened by an encounter with Jesus’
gratuitous love”[10].
We have hope and Light. May the celebration of this Eucharist help us to arrive
at the certainty that with Jesus everything is possible, and a rediscovery of
the meaning of sexuality and marriage is possible, together with him and with
the help of the Magisterium of the Church • AE
[1] Amoris Laetitiae, n. 56.
[2] Ídem, n. 57.
[3] cf. Jn
2:1-11.
[4] cf. Lk 10:38.
[5] cf. Mk 8:14.
[6] cf. Mk 5:41; Lk 7:14-15.
[7] cf. John Paul II, Dives
in Misericordia, 4
[8] cf. Jn 1:4-30.
[9] cf. Jn 8:1-11.
[10] Amoris Laetitia, n. 64.
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