You are Christ – you are Peter

“‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.’ Jesus said to him in reply, ‘Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. 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.” (MT 16: 16-18)

Our identity is based on Our Lord, “the Son of the living God”—we are God’s children; we are His chosen ones, and we are called to different missions “to build His Church.” The more we recognize Him, the more we understand ourselves.

“You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church; the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.” (Gospel Acclamation)