Homily: 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C (8/2019)

Readings: Jer 38:4-6,8-10; Ps 40; Heb 12:1-4, 8-19; Lk 12:49-53
"I have come to bring fire to the earth" [Lk 12:49]. Yes, Jesus calls for fire, but it's a fire of purification. It's a fire of a new creation, the fire that brings the Church into being and continues to cleanse and purify her, always calling her back to her holy beginnings.