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The gospel presents to us Jesus’ words on marriage.
He answered those who asked him whether it was lawful for a man to divorce his wife, as provided by a decree in Mosaic law (see Deuteronomy 24:1), that this was a concession made to Moses because of man’s “hardness of heart,” whereas the truth about marriage dated back to “the beginning of creation” when, as is written of God in the Book of Genesis, “male and female he created them; for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one” (Mark 10:6-7; see Genesis 1:27; 2:24).
And Jesus added: “So they are no longer two but one. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder” (Mark 10:8-9). This is God’s original plan, as the Second Vatican Council also recalled in the constitution…
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