In today’s Gospel, Luke 12: 49-53, Jesus says to us: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and
how I wish it were already blazing!
There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my
anguish until it is accomplished.”
Jesus is talking about His baptism on the cross, on which He secures our
salvation, by which you and I are saved.
It is through God’s love poured out by Jesus’ giving of His life as a
ransom for our sins that you and I are graced with the graces spoken about by
Paul in his letter to the Ephesians 3: 14-21, the first reading of today’s
liturgy:
“[M]ay God grant you,” Paul prays, “in accord with the riches of his glory to be strengthened with power
through his Spirit in the inner self, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts
through faith; that…rooted and grounded in love, [you] may have strength to
comprehend with all the holy ones what is the breadth and length and height and
depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may
be filled with all the fullness of God.”
As you gaze upon the cross today, may these words burn in
your heart! May your heart be set ablaze
with the fire of God’s love for you!
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