Preparation for Sunday mass: Luke 12:49-57

49 "I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 50 I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed! 51 Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! 52 From now on five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three; 53 they will be divided: father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

54 He also said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you immediately say, 'It is going to rain'; and so it happens. 55 And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, 'There will be scorching heat'; and it happens. 56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time? 57 "And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?

For adults:

- What fire is Jesus referring to?

- What baptism is he referring to?

- Why has he come for division?

For children:

- What does fire do? And why does Jesus bring fire?

- Jesus says he has come to bring division and not peace. When can peace be based upon lies and injustice?

- Jesus tells us to interpret the present time. What does this mean? How can we look at what is happening around us and understand what it all means?