Wednesday 29 June, 2016
By Rev. Fr. Moses Omeje
The
church is today celebrating the solemnity of SS. Peter and Paul. They are both
two outstanding figures in the church.
Peter
was the prince of the apostles. He was a fisher man when Jesus called him. We
can learn from him a robust enthusiasm (Mt. 26:33), that manifested through his
life as he answered the call to be an apostle of Jesus Christ. We can see in
him and learn to be humble (Lk. 5:8), docile (Jn. 13:9) and he became a tender
shepherd of the apostles (Jn. 21:17, 1 Pet. 2:13). At the end, St. Peter
offered his life to God on the cross with head downward on the Roman Cross
during the persecution of Emperor Nero about the year 64 A.D. Just be ready to
die for your faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Paul
who was well educated in Hebrew Sacred Scripture and Law, was also a great
persecutor of the early Christians had a divine transformation (Acts. 9:1-19)
the Lord himself arrested him on his way to Damascus and he bowed and obeyed
the superior power. He never went back to his old way of life and he will say
at the end of his ministry, “I have fought the good fight to the end; I have
run the race to the finish; I have kept faith; all there is to come for me now
is the crown of uprightness which the Lord, the upright judge will give to me
on that day and not only to me but to all those who have longed for his
appearing:(2 timothy 4:7-8) We learn
that Paul was executed in Rome by beheading. Can we as Christians today at the
end of our lives be bold enough to repeat after St. Paul as such? The ball is
on our court now, let us play well now and get it right.
Let
us fight a good fight, let us always be on the right track as we run, may we
keep to that faith we received through the Apostles, so that at the end we
shall receive the crown of eternal glory. May God through the prayer of Ss.
Peter and Paul keep us in his love? Happy celebration!
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