(Mt 16,18) R. Hallelujah, hallelujah. You are Peter and on this stone I will build my Church and the powers of the underworld will not prevail over it. R. Hallelujah.
You are Peter, and I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. + From the Gospel according to Matthew 16,13-19 At that time, Jesus, having come to the region of Cesarèa Philippi, asked his disciples: "The people, who says he is the Son of man?". They replied, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, others Jeremiah, or some of the prophets. He said to them, "But who do you say I am?". Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah, for neither flesh nor blood have revealed him to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say to you: you are Peter and on this stone I will build my Church and the powers of the underworld will not prevail over it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven: everything you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and everything you dissolve on earth will be dissolved in heaven. Word of the Lord.
FAUSTI - Faith is responsibility, ability to respond to the Lord who questions. He is and always remains for us a mystery, on which we have neither answers nor images: the only answer is ourselves that we become His Image. To let ourselves be questioned by Him and respond to Him in the Spirit is the art and adventure of every human being. God is the eternal question; man is the answer to it, to the extent that he hears the Word and incarnates it in his own life. - "But who do you say I am?" The "you" is the Community of those who listen to the question of the Son, Word of the Father. "You are the Christ, Son of the Living God": Peter is the first to answer the question personally. He recognizes him as the Christ and the Son of the Living God: he is the expected Saviour who fulfills every promise of heaven and desire for the earth, he is the unexpected Son of God, who in every promise is compromised, a gift beyond all desire. The mystery of the Son of Man is that of being a son of God who communicates himself to every man. Jesus came to bring us the gift of the Father, the Father as a gift, so that we are all children and brothers. Peter's is the profession of Christian faith: Jesus is the Christ, the only Christ, is the Son, the Only Begotten Son of the Father of Life. To see the Son of God in the flesh of Christ is the centre of revelation: it is to enter into the knowledge of the mystery of the Father-Son relationship, revealed to the little ones (11:25-27). "Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah" Peter's is the supreme bliss: accepting the Son, he enters the Kingdom of the Father. He is the first to receive Revelation of what is hidden from the wise and the intelligent. To those who tell him . "You are" He replies: "Blessed are you", and the dialogue between the two begins. "Neither flesh nor blood revealed itself to you, but my Father" Peter sees how much the human eye has never seen: what God has prepared for those who love Him in the Flesh of the Son (1 Cor 2:9). The son of Jonah reads the sign of Jonah in the Son of Man: the Revelation of God (16:4). To recognize Jesus as the Christ and the Son of God is the centre of faith. Peter's role is that of "stone" on which the community that professes this faith is built.Peter becomes "stone". attribute of God (Dt 32:4), as was Abraham, the father of believers (Is 51:1). Faith in the Son gives him the prerogative of God himself. The Church is built on this stone as the home of those who are now familiar with God (Eph 2:19-22). "The gates of the underworld will not prevail. All power of death will be broken against the living God and those of His house. His faithfulness has the last word about all our infidelities, beyond all our frailty and sin, which Peter will also experience (14:29-31 26,32-35 28,7-10).
(Mt 16,18)
RispondiEliminaR. Hallelujah, hallelujah.
You are Peter and on this stone I will build my Church
and the powers of the underworld will not prevail over it.
R. Hallelujah.
You are Peter, and I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven.
+ From the Gospel according to Matthew 16,13-19
At that time, Jesus, having come to the region of Cesarèa Philippi, asked his disciples: "The people, who says he is the Son of man?". They replied, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, others Jeremiah, or some of the prophets. He said to them, "But who do you say I am?". Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah, for neither flesh nor blood have revealed him to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say to you: you are Peter and on this stone I will build my Church and the powers of the underworld will not prevail over it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven: everything you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and everything you dissolve on earth will be dissolved in heaven.
Word of the Lord.
FAUSTI - Faith is responsibility, ability to respond to the Lord who questions.
RispondiEliminaHe is and always remains for us a mystery, on which we have neither answers nor images: the only answer is ourselves that we become His Image.
To let ourselves be questioned by Him and respond to Him in the Spirit is the art and adventure of every human being.
God is the eternal question; man is the answer to it, to the extent that he hears the Word and incarnates it in his own life. - "But who do you say I am?" The "you" is the Community of those who listen to the question of the Son, Word of the Father. "You are the Christ, Son of the Living God": Peter is the first to answer the question personally.
He recognizes him as the Christ and the Son of the Living God: he is the expected Saviour who fulfills every promise of heaven and desire for the earth, he is the unexpected Son of God, who in every promise is compromised, a gift beyond all desire.
The mystery of the Son of Man is that of being a son of God who communicates himself to every man. Jesus came to bring us the gift of the Father, the Father as a gift, so that we are all children and brothers.
Peter's is the profession of Christian faith: Jesus is the Christ, the only Christ, is the Son,
the Only Begotten Son of the Father of Life.
To see the Son of God in the flesh of Christ is the centre of revelation: it is to enter into the knowledge of the mystery of the Father-Son relationship, revealed to the little ones (11:25-27).
"Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah" Peter's is the supreme bliss: accepting the Son, he enters the Kingdom of the Father. He is the first to receive Revelation of what is hidden from the wise and the intelligent. To those who tell him . "You are" He replies: "Blessed are you", and the dialogue between the two begins.
"Neither flesh nor blood revealed itself to you, but my Father" Peter sees how much the human eye has never seen: what God has prepared for those who love Him in the Flesh of the Son (1 Cor 2:9).
The son of Jonah reads the sign of Jonah in the Son of Man: the Revelation of God (16:4).
To recognize Jesus as the Christ and the Son of God is the centre of faith. Peter's role is that of "stone" on which the community that professes this faith is built.Peter becomes "stone". attribute of God (Dt 32:4), as was Abraham, the father of believers (Is 51:1).
Faith in the Son gives him the prerogative of God himself.
The Church is built on this stone as the home of those who are now familiar with God (Eph 2:19-22).
"The gates of the underworld will not prevail. All power of death will be broken against the living God and those of His house. His faithfulness has the last word about all our infidelities, beyond all our frailty and sin, which Peter will also experience (14:29-31 26,32-35 28,7-10).