So let no one boast about human beings, for everything belongs to you, Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or the present or the future: all belong to you, and you to Christ, and Christ to God. (1 Cor 3:18-23)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/090524.cfm
The politics of division, whether in civil society or the church, always seeks to divide, distract and diminish. Paul invites the Corinthian community not to focus on personalities, such Paul, Apollos, or Cephas (Peter), but rather to lift our hearts and minds to Christ and God.
These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.
Thursday, Week XXII, Ordinary Time
