Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Homily)

September 13, 2015 5:00 pm  · Father David Mbimadong

Homilies, Ordinary Time

Today from the first reading we heard the prophet Isaiah speaking for everyone what the Lord God has called him to do. He knows that because it is the Lord God that has sent him, he wouldn't be ashamed. He wouldn't be put to shame and he would be able to dispute with whoever would challenge him. He knew what the Lord God had sent him to do. And he said, the Lord God opened his ears to hear, to understand, and to believe and to put it into practice.

Like the prophet Isaiah, all of us are being called to hear the Word of God, to understand it, to believe and to proclaim it to all those around us. Yet this has not been easy for anyone and wouldn't be easy for us today. In the Gospel we met Jesus and Peter. Jesus asked his disciples, who do people say I am. They give different types of answers. Then he said, you yourselves, who do you say I am. Peter stood in for all of us to say, "You are the Son of God, you are the Messiah", he knew this but he did not understand. Because in a when in few moments, Jesus told them he was going to suffer and to die, Peter could not accept that. How would the Messiah die? Peter knew, but did not understand.