OUR WORDS MATTER: "YOU ARE PETER": HOMILY 21ST SUNDAY O.T. A 2026

"YOU ARE PETER AND ON THIS ROCK, I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH...": 21ST SUNDAY O.T. A 2026

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/224168/fan_mail/new] Friends in Christ, today's readings tell us who we are as Christians. We are people who proclaim that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah, the anointed one of God, the Son of the Living God. And we are called into a community founded by Jesus the Christ and built upon peter the Rock, the one to whom Jesus entrusted the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Friends in Christ, Jesus calls you and me to live together as a family, a family that He calls His Church, a family of faith. He called it “my church”, and He declared that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Hell vanishes in the face of love; the devils flee in the face of trusting, forgiving, believing, and hoping love. Jesus knows that we can’t be our best all alone, all by ourselves. The best within us is always brought out in loving relationships with others. No amount of evil can ever overcome any amount of love. That’s why the gates of hell are powerless in the face of it and we become like Rocks of Gibraltar, like St. Peter became the Rock, when we face of all of life’s storms thrown up against us. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/224168/support]

OUR WORDS MATTER: "YOU ARE PETER": HOMILY 21ST SUNDAY O.T. A 2026

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OUR WORDS MATTER: "YOU ARE PETER": HOMILY 21ST SUNDAY O.T. A 2026

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"YOU ARE WHAT YOU CELEBRATE" THE SOLEMNITY OF THE ASSUMPTION OF MARY

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"LORD, SAVE ME." KEEP YOUR EYES ON CHRIST:19TH SUNDAY OT A

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/224168/fan_mail/new] Friends, God is ever present among His people. And the reason for this? ...to save them, because He loves them.  That's the message from the readings this Sunday. In the first reading, God is not present in the chaos; the thunder, earthquake or fire but is present in the "whispering sound of silence" to Elijah  St Paul in the second reading laments that his fellow Jews have rejected this presence of God in the person of Jesus Christ.  In the gospel, Our Blessed Lord saves Peter from drowning after he lost his trusting faith in Him for a few seconds and fails to walk on water like Jesus.  Friends in Christ, Jesus is always present and available to save us, to calm the storms we are facing in life.  All we need to do is put our faith and trust in Him.  Let us today and every day imitate the short prayer of sinking Peter ‘Lord, save me.’ Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/224168/support]