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[Emoke Greschik]

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Your daily Gospel reflection...
*Thursday, August 9, 2018*
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Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time

Matthew 16:13-23




*Friends, in today’s Gospel Jesus asks his disciples that devastating
question: "But who do you say that I am?" But the disciples don’t speak.
Are they afraid? Perhaps. Finally Simon Peter speaks: "You are the Christ,
the Son of the living God." You are the Messhiach, the anointed one, the
long-awaited Savior, but more to it, you are the Son of God, not just a
human hero. This is the mystical faith that stands at the heart of
Christianity. To hold this Petrine faith is to be a Christian; to deny it
is to deny Christianity. And then those amazing words of Jesus: "Blessed
are you Simon, son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to
you, but my heavenly Father." This insight did not come from Simon’s own
intelligent speculation. It came from above, through grace, from God. And
this is why Peter is a rock. The Church is built not on a worldly
foundation of any kind but on a mystical foundation, born of Peter’s faith
in the revealing God. The Church is neither democratic nor aristocratic—it
is charismatic. And this is where its power comes from.*
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