This Sunday we witness St. Peter’s confession of Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the Living God. This famous passage is often at the heart of interdenominational debates surrounding papal primacy. However, as Tony Crescio explains in his reflection for this weekend, there is also something more fundamental about human identity being revealed to us in this scene. That ultimately, the identity of the human creature is only found in unity with its loving Creator.
Mass Readings:
Reading 1: Isaiah 22:19-23
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 138: 1-2, 2-3, 6, 8
Reading 2: Romans 11: 33-36
Gospel: Matthew 16: 13-20
Tony Crescio is the founder of FRESHImage Ministries. He holds an MTS from the University of Notre Dame and is currently a PhD candidate in Christian Theology at Saint Louis University. His research focuses on the intersection between moral and sacramental theology. His dissertation is entitled, Presencing the Divine: Augustine, the Eucharist and the Ethics of Exemplarity.
Tony’s academic publications can be found here.