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Can good ever come from evil?<\/h4>\n
This blog title will shock some, anger others, and make perfect sense to those who have come through it.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t get me wrong; divorce is\u00a0horrid<\/em>, it violates the whole family, the poison of it reaches into every part of our community, and, yes, God hates it. (Malachi 2:16) But there\u2019s another part of this difficult reality:\u00a0from divorce can come great blessings, renewal, restoration, and even redemption.<\/strong>\u00a0That is precisely the GOOD NEWS of our faith. Our whole Christian religion is about a God who takes our mess and can bring something good, even greater than we had, from it.<\/p>\n
At the beginning of the Easter Vigil twice we heard this strange outburst (Felix Culpa): \n\u201cO happy fault,<\/strong> \nO necessary sin of Adam<\/strong> \nwhich gained for us<\/strong> \nso great a Redeemer!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n
The joy in these words can seem surprising. Why celebrate that Adam failed to intercede for and thus abandoned his wife Eve? Or that she fell for the smooth-talking liar and turned her back on God? And that all of creation has been violated and deeply damaged ever since? How can the Church in her liturgy even suggest that this was a happy day?<\/p>\n
We don’t celebrate evil<\/h4>\n
In the garden, God gave us the promise of a Redeemer. We received news that The Woman would crush the enemy\u2019s head. From the mind of a loving Father God to the lips of the prophets we have been given constant reassurance that great good would rise from the ashes of the fall. Good that no one could even imagine. And best of all, God took on flesh to come among us and give us his heart. His Sacred Heart.<\/em><\/p>\n
From that freely-given \u201cYes\u201d of the \u201cNew Eve\u201d (Mary\u2019s) and the \u201cNew Adam\u201d (Christ\u2019s) all of humanity now has a way back home. We can have an intimate union with God far surpassing what we would have had otherwise.<\/p>\n