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’No human invention’ – Marriage a divine plan, bishop says
Shrewsbury, England, Jan 5, 2015 / 03:28 pm (EWTN News/CNA)
Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury has responded to Pope Francis’ call for renewed commitment to the “Gospel of the Family” by releasing a pastoral letter on the special vocation and mission of the family.
The pastoral letter was read at Mass in all the churches and chapels of the Shrewsbury diocese Dec. 28, the feast of the Holy Family, and reminded the faithful of the Church’s constant and unchangeable teaching regarding human sexuality, marriage, and the family.
“I write to you today in the light of the Child born for us, the Saviour who was given to us within the love and unity of a human family,” Bishop Davies said. “On this Feast of the Holy Family of Nazareth, as we celebrate the holiness of family life and begin a ‘Year for Vocations’ in the Diocese, I want to reflect on the ‘Vocation and Mission of the Family.’”
This, he noted, is “the title Pope Francis has given to the Synod of Bishops to take place in the New Year. It will be a year for Catholics across the world to reaffirm our faith in God’s plan for the family, and to do so amidst the many challenges confronting the holiness of marriage and the life of the family. In a few, simple words I want to affirm what the Church has always believed about marriage and the family.”
Bishop Davies wrote that marriage is “no human invention” but is part of God’s plan, which has existed since the union of Adam and Eve in Eden, and was raised to the dignity of a sacrament by Christ.
“To the astonishment of a people who practised divorce, Jesus reaffirmed that the union of marriage is indissoluble. ‘What God has united,’ Our Lord tells us in the Gospel, ‘man must not divide’ (Mt. 19:6). We believe that this unbreakable union of man and woman provides both the foundation of the family and becomes for all the image of the unfailing love of God. This is no small claim to make! St. Paul declares this to be ‘a great mystery … in reference to Christ and the Church’ (Eph. 5: 32).”
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’No human invention’ – Marriage a divine plan, bishop says
Shrewsbury, England, Jan 5, 2015 / 03:28 pm (EWTN News/CNA)
Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury has responded to Pope Francis’ call for renewed commitment to the “Gospel of the Family” by releasing a pastoral letter on the special vocation and mission of the family.
The pastoral letter was read at Mass in all the churches and chapels of the Shrewsbury diocese Dec. 28, the feast of the Holy Family, and reminded the faithful of the Church’s constant and unchangeable teaching regarding human sexuality, marriage, and the family.
“I write to you today in the light of the Child born for us, the Saviour who was given to us within the love and unity of a human family,” Bishop Davies said. “On this Feast of the Holy Family of Nazareth, as we celebrate the holiness of family life and begin a ‘Year for Vocations’ in the Diocese, I want to reflect on the ‘Vocation and Mission of the Family.’”
This, he noted, is “the title Pope Francis has given to the Synod of Bishops to take place in the New Year. It will be a year for Catholics across the world to reaffirm our faith in God’s plan for the family, and to do so amidst the many challenges confronting the holiness of marriage and the life of the family. In a few, simple words I want to affirm what the Church has always believed about marriage and the family.”
Bishop Davies wrote that marriage is “no human invention” but is part of God’s plan, which has existed since the union of Adam and Eve in Eden, and was raised to the dignity of a sacrament by Christ.
“To the astonishment of a people who practised divorce, Jesus reaffirmed that the union of marriage is indissoluble. ‘What God has united,’ Our Lord tells us in the Gospel, ‘man must not divide’ (Mt. 19:6). We believe that this unbreakable union of man and woman provides both the foundation of the family and becomes for all the image of the unfailing love of God. This is no small claim to make! St. Paul declares this to be ‘a great mystery … in reference to Christ and the Church’ (Eph. 5: 32).”
(Read the rest there)