August 7 - Thursday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Nm.20:1-13; Ps.95:1-2,6-9; Mt.16:13-23) “‘You are the Messiah,’ Simon Peter answered, ‘the Son of the Living God!’” With this response, because of this faith come from the “heavenly Father,” Jesus declares to Peter, “You are ‘Rock’, and on this rock I will build my Church.” He entrusts to him the keys of the kingdom of heaven, with power to bind and loose. As from the rock Moses struck, “water gushed out in abundance for the community… to drink,” so through Peter and the Church Christ has founded we are nourished by the sacraments and true teaching. So the Son of the Living God is with us…
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