{"id":13409,"date":"2026-08-10T16:45:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/?p=13409"},"modified":"2026-08-10T16:45:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:45:59","slug":"sunday-xxi-who-is-god-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/en\/2026\/08\/10\/sunday-xxi-who-is-god-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday XXI: Who is God for you?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>August 23, 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201c\u2018Who do people say the Son of Man is?\u2019 They replied, \u2018Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah\u2026\u2019. \u2018But what about you?\u2019 he asked. \u2018Who do you say I am?\u2019 Simon Peter answered, \u2018You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.\u2019 Jesus replied, \u2018Blessed are you, Simon\u2026. And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it\u2019.\u201c \u00a0(Matthew 16, 13-18)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jesus\u2019 question to his disciples about people\u2019s opinion of Him seems as recent as the polls constantly made in a society such as ours, subject to the wishes of the majority. But, in reality, what God wants to know is what each one of us thinks of Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jesus asks us directly: \u201cWho am I for you?\u201c. And he is not satisfied with an answer by the book, theoretical and rhetorical. It is useless to say: \u201cYou are first in my life\u201d, if afterwards, in practice, television is more important &#8211; to tell by the number of hours spent in front of it versus the limited number of minutes devoted to be with God praying &#8211; or work or fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Just when we realize, with deeds not words, the rule of God in our lives, only then God can entrust us with the task of evangelizing, of being his witnesses, of being solid rocks on which to build its Church. In the meantime, regardless our qualities or the need there may be, He cannot count on people for whom God is just one more thing and sometimes even less. God needs you, but to be able to entrust you with the work he has assigned you he wants first place in your heart. If He cannot do it, it is your fault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Intention<\/u>: <\/strong>This week compare the time devoted to prayer and charity with the one spent in front of the television. If God is first, pray more and go more to church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 23, 2026. \u201c\u2018Who do people say the Son of Man is?\u2019 They replied, \u2018Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah\u2026\u2019. \u2018But what about you?\u2019 he asked. \u2018Who do you say I am?\u2019 Simon Peter answered, \u2018You are the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/en\/2026\/08\/10\/sunday-xxi-who-is-god-for-you\/\">Leer m\u00e1s \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13410,"href":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13409\/revisions\/13410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscanosdemaria.org\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}