11 September 2022 | 24 Sunday in Ordinary Time | Mons Bernard Kiely

Today is the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time. We are led in praying the Mass by Mons Bernard Kiely and the parish of Good Shepherd Balmoral. In today’s Gospel, Jesus is touching base with the disciples, he wants to know what people think of him and his ministry. He then turns the question directly to the disciples and asks what they believe. Peter who often gets things confused nails it this time when he replies that Jesus is the Christ. However, Peter and the others would have had expectations about what it meant to call Jesus the Messiah, the Christ. Jesus was indeed the Messiah, the anointed one, but his life and death would show a different understanding of what it means to be the Messiah. We, too, have expectations of God and our own ideas about what we think God ought to be doing in our world. Like Peter, however, we may risk limiting our image of God by thinking only in human ways. God's plan is always more that we can ever imagine. We need to let God be God for us and not be discouraged because God doesn't act in our world in the ways that we expect. Permission to podcast / stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license M-400197 Bishop Steve Lowe - Limited Podcast License. All rights reserved.