PRI Reflections on Scripture | Friday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time

Finding God In Our Hearts with Msgr. Don Fischer · Aug 14, 2026 · 6m

Original Post Date: August 16, 2024

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Gospel

Matthew 19:3-12

Some Pharisees approached Jesus, and tested him, saying,

"Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatever?"

He said in reply, "Have you not read that from the beginning

the Creator made them male and female and said,

For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother

and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?

So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

Therefore, what God has joined together, man must not separate."

They said to him, "Then why did Moses command

that the man give the woman a…