Study of the Readings
ed. by
Joyce Ann Zimmerman,
et al
• Words, Phrases
• To the point
• First Two Readings
• Experience
John Kavanaugh, SJ
What is it about us that wants to say “forever”? To say “eternally”? To say “till the end of time”?
John J. Pilch
Marriage and Divorce in Jesus' World
Mark’s community is familiar with a situation in which the woman or woman’s family can initiate the divorce. This affront to the husband’s family is so shameful that it must necessarily result in feuding.
Moses wrote that a man should leave father and mother so as to be joined to his wife, that the two might in very truth become one.
Dennis
Hamm, SJ
Once more, we appear to be confronted by an embarrassing image of male domination: the woman fashioned from a small part of the man. A mere addendum.
Reginald H. Fuller
The idea that piety and virtue are the foundations of family life
is not obsolete.