Gospel.

From the Gospel according to Mark. Mk 2:23-28

As Jesus was passing through a field of grain on the sabbath, his disciples began to make a path while picking the heads of grain.
At this the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?”
He said to them,
“Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry? How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the bread of offering that only the priests could lawfully eat, and shared it with his companions?”
Then he said to them,
“The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath. That is why the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.”

The Gospel of the Lord

We could have never imagined.

How much we, men and women, love making ourselves the protagonists of everything. God exhorts us to dedicate at least one day to place Him at the center, yet we turn it into a rule, and from that moment on, we become the protagonists because we comply with the rule. It’s like someone who attends Mass daily because they’ve made a commitment and seems to think they’re doing God a favor by showing up every day. Or like the husband who, simply because he doesn’t get divorced and stays home, believes he’s fulfilling his duties. But where is the love of God in all this? Where is the desire to be with Him? Where is the love of a husband who gives thanks to God every day for allowing him to share a common intimacy with his wife?
Let us not honor God with our lips but with our hearts. Pope Francis is right when he says this generation lacks heart. Let us embrace the heart of Jesus and fall in love with Him.

Applied to married life:

Sile: How wonderful, Matt, is to walk this journey of the Project of Marital Love hand in hand with Mary, a path that draws us ever deeper into intimacy with the Lord together.
Matt: I never knew such a path could exist, Sile—one that could lead us to a relationship with the Lord and with each other that we could never have imagined.
Sile: What a difference! How we now live and savor every Eucharist, every marital prayer. I don’t even know how to thank God for so much.
Matt: And to be accompanied by this wonderful community of couples who support us, who share this same journey—it’s beyond words. I can only give glory to God.
Sile: Glory to God.

Mother,

Thank you, thank you for leading us on this path toward the Lord. Blessed are you forever, Mother.