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We are all called to wage a war on evil and Satan.
We are called to love first and foremost. But that must be a Christian love. It is not a love that aids manipulators or those who abuse others in the name of love (sex).
In 1938/1939, the leaders of France and England sought Peace at any price. To this end, Czechoslovakia was given away. So was part of France. This peace at any price philosophy took a blind eye to the imprisonment of the Jews of Germany and other lands given to Nazi Germany.
Should there be fighting in a marriage to get a spouse/son/daughter to attend Mass (and dress properly)? Yes.
Should we try to get members of our family to go to confession more often (more than once a year)? Yes.
In our society today, many are enslaved to Satan -- TV, pornography, money, jobs that take people away from God except for a few days a month, etc.
I imagine the division will occur in families as one person accepts Satan for the pleasures and entertainment of sin where another person rejects sin and Satan. This can put the two people into conflict.
| Lk 12:49-53 | ||
|---|---|---|
| # | Douay-Rheims | Vulgate |
| 49 | I am come to cast fire on the earth; and what will I, but that it be kindled? | ignem veni mittere in terram et quid volo si accendatur |
| 50 | And I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized: and how am I straitened until it be accomplished? | baptisma autem habeo baptizari et quomodo coartor usque dum perficiatur |
| 51 | Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation. | putatis quia pacem veni dare in terram non dico vobis sed separationem |
| 52 | For there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided: three against two, and two against three. | erunt enim ex hoc quinque in domo una divisi tres in duo et duo in tres |
| 53 | The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against his father, the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother, the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. | dividentur pater in filium et filius in patrem suum mater in filiam et filia in matrem socrus in nurum suam et nurus in socrum suam |