Today’s Readings – Sunday of Week 27 of Ordinary Time (Year B)

Commentary on Genesis 2:18-24; Hebrews 2:9-11; Mark 10:2-16

We touch today on a very topical, very sensitive and very painful reality of life in our time—the question of divorce. Similarly, today’s Gospel indicates that it was a controversial question in Jesus’ time and in his society also.

In reply to the Pharisees’ question about the permissibility of divorce, Jesus quotes from the book of Genesis in a passage used in our First Reading today. It expresses in beautiful language the ideal of the perfect marriage. Speaking about the companion God had given him:

...the man said,


“This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
this one shall be called Woman,
for out of Man this one was taken.”


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Yesterday’s Readings – Saturday of Week 26 of Ordinary Time - First Reading

Commentary on Job 42:1-3,5-6,12-17

Today we have Job’s final response to Yahweh, and the restoration of his fortunes. The reading is in two parts. In the first we have Job’s last words and they are his reply to the second speech of Yahweh (which we have not read in the liturgy).

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