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Jesus is Fire within Us!

Luke 12:49-53

Jesus said to his disciples, “I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed! Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! From now on five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three; 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 mother-in-law.”



Jesus can bring division among people – those with him and against him. He can bring division also inside each of us. Prayer is a time to sift with him the different desires and actions of our lives. In prayer we ask the grace to ‘know him more, love him more and serve him more faithfully in our lives’.

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