It's a God-eat-God world !
January 25, 2026 Today’s second reading gives us a glimpse into the internal divisions among the members of the early Church - a period when many of those who walked with Jesus were still alive. This was not the only such passage iin the New Testament. We find other passages too that speak of divisions and quarreling in the early Church ( 1 Cor 3 : 3-4, Galatians 5 : 19-21 ) . In Ephesians ( 4 : 29-31 ) Paul exhorts the Christians to put away anger, clamor and bitterness. And as I have mentioned in previous blogs there was even dissension between Peter and Paul with the latter calling the leader of the Apostles a hypocrite. ( Galatians 2 : 11-14 ). Furthermore, there is a passage in which we have a discussion on how careless talk and gossip cause disturbances ( James 3 : 5 ), indicating that this too was going on in the early Church, while there is a reference to those who cause dissensions in the letter to the Romans ( Rom 16 : 17-18 ). These divisions continued over the c...
