THURSDAY 18TH WEEK IN
ORDINARY TIME YEAR B.
1ST READING: JEREMIAH
31:31-34
GOSPEL: MATTHEW 16:13-23
THEME: THE NEW COVENANT IS IN US.
God promised in the first reading
to make a new covenant with his people and this covenant will not be like the
first that needed people to be interpreting them to people rather, the spirit
will write them in men’s hearts. It is the same spirit of the father that
revealed to Peter that Jesus is the Christ the son of the living God that
writes the covenant. We all know what is good and what is bad and that is part
of the covenant. We all know that Christ died for us and that also is part of
the covenant, it is the main covenant. How are we now responding to the
callings of the covenant in our hearts? All these preaching, sermon, homilies,
reflections and many others that we here and see all the time are not to tell
us what we have not known before but to remind us of what we have known and to
awaken them (if they are sleeping) in our hearts. Since you know the will of
God, act according to it and you will be saved (Acts 16:31). The covenant was
sealed in our hearts with the blood of Christ. Peter thought like men when he
was yet to receive the Holy Spirit that awakened the covenant in him. We have
received the Holy Spirit, so let us live out the covenant that is in our
hearts. Thanks.
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