Aa daily reflection for september 29th9/14/2023 ![]() Keep me from ever growing cold in my faith. Whoever rejects you rejects me” (Lk 10:16).Ĭonversation with Christ : Lord, help me to love my faith as an expression of my personal relationship with you. How well do I know papal teaching? Do I make an effort to learn why he teaches as he teaches? When a difficulty arises, do I consult Church teaching? “Whoever listens to you listens to me. The Pope doesn’t have the power to make morality but rather to define authoritatively on issues at hand. The Pope’s unique authority gives us a sure guide on moral questions. Authority, in this case papal authority, is not an imposition but rather a service. Why? Not because Mom is God, but because Mom has authority from God. A child who disobeys a licit command from its mother is committing a sin. Authority implies the ability to delegate it hence, Jesus gave Peter, as the first pope, the power to bind and loose, that is, to make disciplinary rules within the Church. Binding and Loosing: Keys were a symbol of authority.Do I try to listen to Jesus in prayer, in Scripture? Or do I simply try to “figure him out”? But since when do we try to understand the totality of a person with reason? Learning about another person can often require personal contact, above all, listening to him or her. Throughout history skeptics have tried to figure out Jesus, using just their reason and tools of research. ![]() Recognition of Jesus as the Christ involves an act of faith. And Jesus in turn tells him that this knowledge doesn’t come from the world. ![]() Heavenly Revelation: Peter professes that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah.What does Christ mean to me? Is he just a picture on a holy card? A dimly perceived do-gooder from the past? Or does he have a real place in my life? He is, after all, the Second Person of the Trinity who came into the world in order to save us. At some point a young woman will wonder, how serious is her boyfriend? After a few weeks of class, a professor wants to know, who are the serious students here? On the eve of battle a soldier might wonder, can I count on my buddies when the bullets start flying? Likewise, Our Lord wonders about us. The test of any relationship is how committed people are to each other. Identity Crisis: Jesus isn’t interested in what “others” think of him.Petition : Help me, Lord, to enter into a deeper, personal relationship with you. May this time I spend with you be an expression of my love. I want to draw close to you in this prayer. I believe that you came into this world to suffer and die to give me a chance at eternal salvation. Introductory Prayer : Jesus, I believe in you. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” I will give you the keys to the Kingdom of heaven. 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. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. ![]() When Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi 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. Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles ![]()
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