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Theo Tigno•
8/8/2007 11:35 pm
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Thursday, August 9th 2007 |
Matthew 16:13-23
Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi and he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?" They replied, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter said in reply, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Jesus said to him in reply, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the Kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."
Then he strictly ordered his disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ.
From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer greatly from the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be raised. Then Peter took Jesus aside and began to rebuke him, "God forbid, Lord! No such thing shall ever happen to you." He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle to me. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do."
Dawg's thought:
Today's prayer intention is for the rescue of the trapped miners in Utah, that God gives the rescue team and those trapped the grace needed to be rescued.
God reveals Himself to us.
In today's reading:
- The Father reveals to Peter the person of Jesus Christ.
- Jesus reveals to Peter who He is called to be
- Jesus reveals His passion and His resurrection
In our world today, we have a hard enough time knowing who we are. We're tempted to believe that we are "expendable, replaceable, and not dignified enough to live lives of virtue."
These temptations are all lies.
God reveals Himself to us and tells us today that "the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against" The Church. God reveals Himself to us and shows us the dignity of life through the sacrifice of His own life. God reveals Himself to us and tells us that He truly became one of us in all things but sin.
Today, brothers and sisters, let us rejoice in knowing that God reveals Himself to us, and that through Him, we have our dignity, and that is something the lies of the neither world cannot take from us. Take care and God Bless.
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