HOMILY FOR THURSDAY OF THE 5TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
Homily for Thursday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time. Genesis 2:18-25; Mark 7:24-30. *The creation of Woman The first reading continues with the second creation account of the human person. God created a help mate for man because he said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him" (Gen.2:18). When God created a woman and the man saw her, he said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." Therefore, a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh" (Gen.2:24-25). This is the origin of marriage. God established marriage as an institution right from the time of creation. Hence, our Lord Jesus Christ raised marriage in the New Testament to be a sacrament of love between a man and a woman, not a man and a man or a woman and a woman. It is a union between a man and a woman so that through the love established b...