Rome’s new document says “God does not bless division.” Today’s Gospel has Our Lord saying He came to bring it. Which is it? Joe reads “Venite ad Me – Considerations on the Transmission of the Faith in an Epochal Change” – the last document Pope Francis asked for, approved by Pope Leo XIV on August 21, 2026, and signed by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández – against the Gospel for Thursday, October 22: Luke 12:49-53. Fire on the earth. Division in the house. And a text that quotes the fire twice (¶30, ¶77) and warns catechists off anything “scholastic,” “dogmatic,” or “moralistic” (¶80). The red flags, with paragraph numbers so you can read them yourself. And the good in it, because there is some – the family as “the first and most essential place” for handing on the faith (¶31), parents as “our first catechists” (¶36), and the honest admission that automatic transmission of the faith inside Catholic homes is ending (¶38).
SCRIPTURE (Douay-Rheims):
Luke 12:49 – “I am come to cast fire on the earth; and what will I, but that it be kindled?”
Luke 12:51 – “Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.”
Luke 12:52-53 – “For there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided…”
Matthew 10:34 – “Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword.”
Matthew 11:28 – “Come to me, all you that labour, and are burdened, and I will refresh you.” (the document’s title verse)
John 8:12 – “I am the light of the world.”
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