Gospel of August 17, 2018

Friday of the XNUMXth week of Ordinary Time holidays

Book of Ezekiel 16,1-15.60.63.
This word of the Lord was addressed to me:
“Son of man, make all his abominations known in Jerusalem.
You will say to them: Thus says the Lord God in Jerusalem: You are, by origin and birth, of the land of the Canaanites; your father was Amorreo and your mother Hittita.
At your birth, when you were born, your navel was not cut and you were not washed with water to purify yourself; salt frictions did not make you, nor were you wrapped in swaddling clothes.
Merciful eye did not turn on you to do one of these things and use compassion, but as a loathsome object you were thrown away in the countryside on the day of your birth.
I passed by you and saw you struggling in the blood and I said to you: Live in your blood
and grow like field grass. You grew up and made yourself big and reached the flower of youth: your chest became flourishing and you had now reached puberty; but you were naked and exposed.
I passed by you and saw you; behold, your age was the age of love; I spread the edge of my cloak over you and covered your nakedness; I swore an alliance with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine.
I washed you with water, wiped off your blood and anointed you with oil;
I dressed you with embroideries, you put on badger skin, you covered your head with fine linen and covered you with silk;
I adorned you with jewels: I put bracelets on your wrists and a necklace on your neck:
I put a ring on your nose, ear earrings and a beautiful crown on your head.
Thus you were adorned with gold and silver; your clothes were made of fine linen, silk and embroidery; flour of flour and honey and oil were your food; you became more and more beautiful and you came to be queen.
Your fame spread among the people for your beauty, which was perfect, for the glory that I had placed in you, the word of the Lord God.
You, however, infatuated with your beauty and taking advantage of your fame, have prostituted yourself by granting your favors to every passerby.
I too will remember the covenant concluded with you at the time of your youth and I will establish an eternal covenant with you.
because you remember and are ashamed of it and, in your confusion, you don't open your mouth anymore, when I have forgiven you what you have done. Word of the Lord God. "

Book of Isaiah 12,2-3.4bcd.5-6.
Behold, God is my salvation;
I will trust, I will never be afraid,
because my strength and my song is the Lord;
he was my salvation.
You will draw water with joy
at the sources of salvation.

“Praise the Lord, call on his name;
manifest its wonders among peoples,
proclaim that his name is sublime.

Sing hymns to the Lord, because he has done great works,
this is known throughout the earth.
Joyful and exultant shouts, inhabitants of Zion,
because great among you is the Holy One of Israel. "

From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew 19,3-12.
At that time, some Pharisees came to Jesus to test him and asked him: "Is it lawful for a man to repudiate his wife for any reason?".
And he replied: "You have not read that the Creator created them male and female at first and said:
Is this why the man will leave his father and mother and join his wife and will the two be one flesh?
So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let man not separate from you ».
They objected to him, "Why then did Moses order to give her the act of repudiation and send her away?"
Jesus replied to them: «For the hardness of your heart Moses allowed you to repudiate your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
Therefore I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except in the event of a concubinage, and marries another commits adultery. "
The disciples said to him: "If this is the condition of the man with respect to the woman, it is not convenient to get married".
He replied to them: «Not everyone can understand it, but only those to whom it has been granted.
In fact, there are eunuchs who were born from the mother's womb; there are some who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are others who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven. Who can understand, understand ».