[Grem] Gospel meditation

[Emoke Greschik]

 Friends, today’s Gospel spells out* the importance of Peter’s confession.*
For *it is upon this inspired confession that the Church is built. *Not,
mind you, on popular opinion, which is shifting and indecisive, and not on
personal holiness, which is all too rare. It is built upon the inspired
authority of Peter—and I say, “Thank God!”

We make this troubling and extraordinary claim that *it is through a
special charism of the Spirit that Peter and his successors govern the
Church. *Now, I realize that I have many Protestant readers and that this
text has been, between Catholics and Protestants, a stumbling block. Let me
clarify what is and is not at stake here.


*What is the focus of Peter’s confession? It has to do with who Jesus is.
This is the rock upon which the Church is built. Peter is right about who
Jesus is: a man who is also the Son of the living God. And this is the
source and ground of the whole operation. *

*Imádkozzál érettünk, Istennek szent Anyja!  Hogy méltók lehessünk Krisztus
ígéreteire!  Könyörögjünk! Kérünk téged, Úristen, öntsd lelkünkbe szent
kegyelmedet, hogy akik az angyali üzenet által szent Fiadnak, Jézus
Krisztusnak megtestesülését megismertük, az ő kínszenvedése és keresztje
által a föltámadás dicsőségébe vitessünk! Krisztus, a mi Urunk által. Ámen.*
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