They will be divided, father against son and son against father; mother against daughter and
daughter against mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
REFLECTION:
Today we hear a Gospel that may strike us as quite disturbing. Jesus says that he did not come
to bring peace but division! What has become of the evangelist Luke who at the beginning of
his Gospel has the angels announce “Glory to God in the highest and peace to men of good will”?
Is he contradicting himself? Can the Prince of Peace really bring division?
There is no contradiction; only a clarification. Christ is the Prince of Peace! He came to reconcile
us to the Father (see Ephesians 2)! Assuredly Christ desires unity and not division in the Church,
the body of Christ(see Ephesians 4)! But the peace of Christ is founded on the acceptance of Jesus and his teachings.
It is a peace that is based on a common allegiance to Christ and his gospel without compromise.
The believer cannot allow human affiliations, even family relationships,
to take precedence over relationship with Christ and the Gospel.
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