In the Gospel of Mark we read of the Son of God, but this rubric is used meagerly, merely at cardinal minutes The Transfiguration, Trial with the High Priest when Christ is condemned and by the centurion at the pes of the Cross, genuinely this Man was the Son of God.

Mark wants people to cognize the Christ is the Son of God, he does non desire people to misconstrue who Jesus is, he is non a prestidigitator, therapist, etc. There is a batch to more to Jesus and Mark wrote his Gospel to unclutter up the misinterpretations that had arisen with respect to Jesus. The Gospel authors knew they were right, they did non desire people to lose bosom ; the communities that they were composing for were communities of religion. Mark says Jesus is Divine ; He is the Son of God, non some local hero. He is the Son of God faithful to his Father.

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We hear Peter ‘s reply to the inquiry asked by Jesus is right. Peter calls Jesus the Christ but he truly does non understand what he has said, he did non truly understand what this meant. This is the turning point in Mark ‘s Gospel.

Peter thought that Jesus was power and glorification. He saw Jesus as a great individual with great power greater than that of Caesar and King David rolled into one.

Jesus was swift to rectify Peter who had made a error. To be Christ meant rejection, anguish, decease and so and merely so Resurrection, but to a new sort of life, ageless life offered to all.

. Peter had to accept Christ ‘s thought of what it meant to be Christ and to wholly accept this thought. Peter had to be converted. He had to gain that Christ had non come to turn over Caesar ; Christ had come to destruct wickedness, decease and the Devil.

Are we like Peter and answer ‘Jesus, you are the Christ ‘ without really believing what this means. There are effects if we say ‘Jesus, you are the Christ ‘ and these effects are non defined by us, they are guided by Christ. If I truly believe in Christ I will give up myself to His will, His ways, His docket for me, I will non put my ain docket I will non care about my ain comfort etc. I will see Him in the Blessed Sacrament and see him in all the people I come across without exclusion.

If I truly believe that Christ is the Son of God, so everything alterations and it must alter. The deeper I enter into a relationship with Christ and the more I embrace His ways, His ideals, etc the more committed I become. I become a Christian. We become wholly born-again.

But I merely go a true follower and committed member of the church if my religion is profound and rooted in Christ, so rooted that it is in the deepnesss of my bosom. So I must demo concern for all non affair who they are. Faith as mentioned in the Letter of James is non merely supplication but besides means demoing compassion and attention for God ‘s people, as Christ has, ‘if one of the brothers or one of the sisters is in demand ‘ and we do non assist so our religion is merely a speaking religion. Faith in Christ is a religion of action. A religion without workss is an abstract religion ‘if the good plants do non travel with religion, it is rather dead ‘ Faith in integrity with Christ, does what Christ would make. No point in being pious, kneeling in forepart of the Blessed Sacrament and being wholly incognizant of what is traveling on around us and stating to ourselves that what is go oning in the 3rd universe states has nil to make with me.

So there are effects in being a Christian and stating ‘You are the Messiah, the Anointed One of God ‘

We must be prepared to deny ourselves to follow Christ and listen to what he has to state to us. We will ne’er be asked to give up our life for Christ I hope, I mean to be martyred for our religion. But we are asked to lose our life, and this means that we enter into a loving relationship with Christ, we love Him without reserve, we take up our cross whatever that is follow Him without grouching. We give ourselves wholeheartedly to Christ.

This Gospel today challenges us as followings of Christ. Can we volitionally follow like the Suffering Servant mentioned in our Psalm, giving ourselves wholly to God and to decease for Christ like he died for us. IF WE DO THIS OUR LIVES WILL Be TRANSFRORMED BEYOND WORDS.

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