THE BONE FROM MY BONES AND FLESH FROM MY FLESH
THURSDAY WEEK 5 IN ORDINARY TIME Universalis
Reading Genesis 2:18-25 Man and wife become one body
The Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helpmate.’ So from the soil the Lord God fashioned all the wild beasts and all the birds of heaven. These he brought to the man to see what he would call them; each one was to bear the name the man would give it. The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of heaven and all the wild beasts. But no helpmate suitable for man was found for him. So the Lord God made the man fall into a deep sleep. And while he slept, he took one of his ribs and enclosed it in flesh. The Lord God built the rib he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man. The man exclaimed:
‘This at last is bone from my bones, and
flesh from my flesh! This is to be called woman, for this was taken from man.’
This is why a man leaves his father and
mother and joins himself to his wife, and they become one body.
Now both of them were naked, the man and
his wife, but they felt no shame in front of each other.
Gospel Mark 7:24-30
The astuteness of the Syro-Phoenician woman
Jesus left Gennesaret and set out for the territory of Tyre. There he went into a house and did not want anyone to know he was there, but he could not pass unrecognised. A woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him straightaway and came and fell at his feet. Now the woman was a pagan, by birth a Syrophoenician, and she begged him to cast the devil out of her daughter. And he said to her, ‘The children should be fed first, because it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the house-dogs.’ But she spoke up: ‘Ah yes, sir,’ she replied ‘but the house-dogs under the table can eat the children’s scraps.’ And he said to her, ‘For saying this, you may go home happy: the devil has gone out of your daughter.’ So she went off to her home and found the child lying on the bed and the devil gone. CDR
Father you created man and woman in your image, in your goodness you made them husband and wife that they may be one. Father bless all families, make them one and united. May children be obedient to their parents as Christ was to Joseph and Mary his parents.
Lord Jesus Christ I trust in you. Virgin Mary pray for me. Saint Joseph pray for me. God's Holy Angels and Saints pray for me. My Guardian Angel pray for me. Guide and guard me.
Pray the Holy Rosary: Hail Mary full of grace. Hail Holy Queen Mother of our Lord and Saviour pray for us.
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