St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church issued the following announcement on Aug. 23
You are the Christ, the Son of the living God,” Peter confesses in today’s Gospel (Matthew 16:16). “Christ,” the Greek translation of the Hebrew “Messiah,” links Jesus to David, a connection Matthew himself exhaustively details at the beginning of his Gospel: “The book of genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham” (1:1). According to Peter, then, Jesus is the Son of David and the Son of God. These aren’t the only “son of’s” in today’s readings. Eliakim is the son of Hilkiah. He too is linked to David, Jesus calls Peter “Simon son of Jonah” (16:17). Jesus is the Son of Man and the Son of living God. To be a son or daughter links us to a long line of ancestors, through our parents and grandparents and great- grandparents, to people whose names we don’t even know but without whom we would not exist today. We are linked to them, as Eliakim is linked to David and Peter to Jonah and Jesus to God the Father, who links us all together, “for from him and through him and for him are all things” (Romans 11:36).
How does realizing that we are all linked to God, that we are all children of God, lead you to see your neighbor differently?
Original source can be found here.
Source: St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church
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