Fr. Kevin Drew: The Division of Man vs. the Division of Christ

Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.

Christ warned us that families would bust apart because of Him.  Father against son and mother against daughter.  Throw a person’s in-laws into the mix, and Christ comes off as some sort of divine homewrecker.

We see how our world is wrought with division.  Do we attribute this to Christ?  Of course not. The point is that Christ has to come first.  We have to love God and then love neighbor—in that order.  Our neighbors cannot save us; as our prayers state, it is not “through neighbor” that we get to heaven, it is through Christ.  We must also notice that in Sunday’s passage from Luke Christ did not pit husband against wife. No, the division of man and woman in marriage would come from some not-so-divine homewreckers. …

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