“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!” (Lk 12:49-50),
Jesus longs to see the world ablaze, but not a destructive fire, rather the fire of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit transforms, purifies, renews hearts and draws our wills and souls into His divine life.
It starts at Baptism and is renewed and strengthened in Confirmation and nourished by the Eucharist.
Today stir the embers of your Baptism and Confirmation through the Sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist and when the Holy Spirit breathes into your soul God’s fire allow it to consume you and guide you.
Pope Francis offered us this insight in one of his Angelus addresses where he commented on Luke’s Gospel [12:49-53] it "does not leave things as they are...[it] provokes change and invites conversion…. It is just like fire: while it warms us with God's love, it wants to burn our selfishness, to enlighten the dark sides of life -- we all have them, eh! -- to consume the false idols that enslave us."
“Setting the world on fire” means spreading the Gospel message and the transformative power of God’s love. What in our lives do we need to change, what sins, what bad habits need to be to burned off?
What in our lives prevents or dims the flame of Gospel from burning more brightly. Jesus reminds us that we have been baptized to set the world ablaze with God’s love.
May God Be Praised.
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