The House

Today’s Gospel ends with a discussion of the interesting, but frightening reality of unforgivable sins (upon which I reflected back in October).

Today’s Gospel begins with the scribes’ bizarre accusation that Christ’s exorcisms are satanically powered.

In the middle of this Gospel passage, as a retort to that ludicrous allegation, we have our Lord’s famous expression (later adopted by Lincoln) “if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.”

An interesting but frightening reality is that too often it is our own house that is divided against itself: parishioner against parishioner, Catholic against Catholic, Christian against Christian.

We should never be working against each other, but rather working to stand together in the love and truth of our one Lord Jesus Christ.