--- title: Articles – Church Life Journal | Cross description: Cross | --- Search [![churchlife](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/hubfs/Churchlife_Aug2016_Theme/Images/church-life-journal-white-horizontal-1.png)](http://churchlife.nd.edu/) - [Essays](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays) - [Articles](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles) - [Blog](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/blog-post) - [Contributors](http://churchlife.nd.edu/contributors/) All posts filed under: ARTICLES [![](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/OMalley-20OT-crop.jpg)](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/2016/08/11/the-sword-of-division) ## [The Sword of Division](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/2016/08/11/the-sword-of-division) Published by [Timothy O'Malley](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/articles/author/timothy-omalley) The stark reality of Jesus’ words in the Gospels should often shake us to our inner core. Jesus didn’t come into the world to preach the Gospel of niceness. Rather, Jesus proclaims today, “‘I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!’” (Lk 12:49). 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As we learn on the Thirteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, to follow Jesus may require us to leave behind everything. 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You can almost hear the crowd gathered around Jesus murmuring this to themselves. They haven’t followed this prophetic miracle-worker, this teacher extraordinaire to watch him die. 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