Sunday 17 August 2025
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10. Lord, come to our aid! – Ps 39(40):2-4, 18. Hebrews 12:1-4. Luke 12:49-53.
I have come to bring fire to the earth
Today’s Gospel is a story of division, of one against another. Where is the gospel of peace and love? It is no secret that the church isn’t always the bearer of the Good News. It can seem to many that the church has only left great distress in its wake.
However, the Letter to the Hebrews tells another story. There is a ‘great cloud’ of witnesses to the Good News. May we be counted among this great cloud of witnesses to love and mercy and compassion and justice. In the ordinariness of our lives, let us never grow tired of being signs of Good News.
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