"YOU ARE PETER AND ON THIS ROCK, I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH...": 21ST SUNDAY O.T. A 2026

Send us Fan MailFriends in Christ, today's readings tell us who we are as Christians. We are people who proclaim that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah, the anointed one of God, the Son of the Living God. And we are called into a community founded by Jesus the Christ and built upon peter the Rock, the one to whom Jesus entrusted the keys of the kingdom of heaven.Friends in Christ, Jesus calls you and me to live together as a family, a family that He calls His Church, a family of faith. He called it “my church”, and He declared that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Hell vanishes in the face of love; the devils flee in the face of trusting, forgiving, believing, and hoping love. Jesus knows that we can’t be our best all alone, all by ourselves. The best within us is always brought out in loving relationships with others. No amount of evil can ever overcome any amount of love. That’s why the gates of hell are powerless in the face of it and we become like Rocks of Gibraltar, like St. Peter became the Rock, when we face of all of life’s storms thrown up against us.Support the show