Gospel
text (Mc 8,27-33): Jesus
set out with his disciples for the villages around Caesarea Philippi; and on
the way He asked them, «Who do people say I am?». And they told him, «Some say
you are John the Baptist; others say you are Elijah or one of the prophets».
Then Jesus asked them, «But you, who do you say I am?». Peter answered, «You
are the Messiah». And he ordered them not to tell anyone about him. Jesus then
began to teach them that the Son of Man had to suffer many things and be
rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the Law. He would
be killed and after three days rise again. Jesus said all this quite openly, so
that Peter took him aside and began to protest strongly. But Jesus turning
around, and looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter saying, «Get behind me
Satan! You are thinking, not as God does, but as people do».
Our God is all love and truth, who asks from us humility and forgiveness. Our God is the only living God. He has the word of eternal life. Observing the process of the current protests in the Middle East and many other places in the world by the so called followers of Islam, presumably outraged because they do not like what is being presented in a film about their prophet; it is interesting to distinguish that factual truth, about what is missing in the whole staging of these protests and it is precisely, truth, love, humility and forgiveness and it is not precisely from the ignorant mobs perpetrating the assaults under the direction of their evil leaders, but from the ones supposedly protecting the basic and fundamental freedoms we all in the western civilization which is founded in Christianity, have for granted.
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