Readings
I - Eph.: 3:14-21
II - Lk. 12: 49-53
PEACE IS THE PROMISE OF CHRIST
Jesus was the Prince of Peace prophesied by Prophet Isaiah (Is. 9:6) and in fact peace was the promise of the angels who sang in unison at the birth of Jesus, “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of good will” (Lk. 12: 14). The Prince of Peace in today’s Gospel passage says that he came not to bring peace but division. By his life and teaching Jesus sets a constant strife between the good and the bad; virtues and vices; and the values of the Kingdom of God and the values of the world.
This strife exists even in the family. Some choose to live for God, come what may while others are content with the compromising life that is convenient resulting in division in the very own family between the kith and the kin. Choosing to live up to the life and teaching of Christ Jesus can alienate one from family, friends, society and the nation at large making him/her a sign of conflict and contradiction fan firing opposition, confusion, misunderstanding, persecution and suffering. Their courageous endurance would fill them with the peace of Christ. The peace which the world can neither give not sniff from the people of God - "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the
world gives” (Jn. 14:27). Let our mind and heart resonate with the prayer: “Jesus Lord fill me with your peace”.
