Today’s Gospel gives us the foundation for the Church’s teachings about marriage. You know, one of the things that the people of Jesus’ day admired most about Jesus was that he spoke with authority. He didn’t have to quote other rabbis or give other people’s opinions when giving the answer to the question. One of the things modern people like least about him is that he spoke with authority! We would rather look upon Christ’s teachings as opinions or suggestions. This is especially true with regard to marriage – one of the “hot button” issues of the day. The attitude of Catholics toward marriage, divorce, sex outside of marriage, cohabitation, homosexuality, etc. unfortunately is not, for the most part, formed by what Jesus tells us. It is pretty much formed by the attitude of modern society. I think that far too often instead of being a light for the world as we should be, too many of us take our light and direction from society and just toss the teachings of Christ. Re-read today’s Gospel and give it some thought – it is really challenging to us! God bless!