Readings: Sir 6.5-17 / Ps 118 / Mk 10:1-12
GOOD RELATIONS
Today the Scriptures play in stereo and a hymn to the wise "good relations" (Sir 6:5). The wonderful plot of Jesus' discourse on friendship well Sirach and the Lord Jesus on marriage are a perfect 'Manual of Love', which reminds us how necessary it is to accept the dimension of affect as both gift and a task.
The first news that is disturbing to some naive way of thinking and spread the love is becoming increasingly clear reflection of Sirach. The wise learn to manage the need for relationships - that dwells heavily on the hearts of each - with caution: "If you want a friend, try it now and do not trust him" (6.7). The reasons, come to think, are quite obvious and the list could also extend beyond the imagination of Sirach: "There is in fact who is a friend when it suits them, but can not resist the day of your misfortune. There is also the friend who changes into an enemy and find your arguments to your shame "(6.8 to 9). The permanent validity of these recommendations was established and is confirmed experience that each couple venturing into the fragile and vital sphere of human affections. Yet, as is well known and reasonable, the principle of gradual slow to take root in the attitudes with which we manage our relationships. By extreme, we too easily throw in relationships with impulsiveness, immature, and then taste the bitterness of disappointment, when we are forced to recognize that, in fact, we did not find any "treasure" (6:14), but only 'opportunity cost of a business.
The need to test the quality of relationships of love is so indisputable as to want to have a good man and a woman. Yesterday as today shows people living in the heart of this experience, the doubt whether it is really possible to continue to the end, or if at some point is not logical, at least "permissible for a man to divorce his wife" (Mk 10 2). The Lord Jesus look at the problem from a privileged point of view, "the beginning of creation" (10.6), and tracks down the only dream of God, "and the two shall become one flesh" (10.8). If love requires prudence in its initial stage, after which it can not be achieved through the imprudence of a whole blood donation, irrevocable. And this, if it were a dream challenging, can not really be the only dream that conforms to our hearts, even when it is paralyzed in its "hardness" (10.5). What love is that which, after the necessary inquiries, request and continues to have a "price" (Sir 6:15)?
the course is cost, call for prudence and madness, gradually and finality. Choose to live them, however, does not seem that much optional. Since a 'friend', a love "is true medicine that gives life" (6:16), "there is no measure for its value" (6:15).
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