IVangeli Lanamuhla elinamazwana: 22 kuFebhuwari 2020

Okuvela kwiVangeli likaJesu Kristu ngokukaMathewu 16,13-19.
Ngaleso sikhathi, lapho uJesu efika esifundeni saseCesarèa di Filippo, wabuza abafundi bakhe ukuthi: "Abantu bathi ubani uyiNdodana yomuntu?".
Baphendula bathi: "Abanye uJohane uMbhabhathizi, abanye uElija, abanye uJeremiya noma abanye babaprofethi."
Wathi kubo: "Nina nithi ngingubani?"
USimoni Peter waphendula: "UnguKristu, iNdodana kaNkulunkulu ophilayo."
Futhi uJesu: «Ubusisiwe wena, Ndodana kaJona, ngoba nenyama negazi akukuembulelanga yona, kodwa uBaba osezulwini.
Futhi ngithi kuwe: UnguPeter futhi kuleli tshe ngizokwakha isonto lami futhi amasango esihogo ngeke alinqobe.
Ngizokunika okhiye bombuso wezulu, nakho konke okuokubopha emhlabeni kuzokuboshwa ezulwini, nakho konke okuthukulula emhlabeni kuzoncibilika ezulwini. "
Ukuhunyushwa kwebhayibheli ngokwesiLatini

USanta Leo Omkhulu (? - ca 461)
upapa nodokotela weSonto

Inkulumo yesi-4 yesikhumbuzo sokukhethwa kwakhe; PL 54, 14a, SC 200
"Phezu kwaleli dwala ngizokwakha iSonto lami"
Akukho okuphunyukile ekuhlakanipheni nasemandleni kaKristu: izinto zemvelo zazimsebenzela, imimoya yayimlalela, izingelosi zimkhonza. (…) Kepha kubo bonke abantu, nguPetru kuphela okhethwe ukuba abe ngowokuqala ukubizela bonke abantu ensindisweni futhi abe yinhloko yabo bonke abaphostoli nabo bonke obaba beSonto. Kubantu bakaNkulunkulu kunabapristi abaningi nabefundisi, kepha umqondisi weqiniso wabo bonke nguPetru, ongaphansi komgadi ophakeme kaKristu. (...)

INkosi ibuza bonke abaphostoli ukuthi abantu bacabangani ngaye futhi bonke banikeza impendulo efanayo, okuyinkulumo eqondakalayo yokungazi kwabantu okuvamile. Kepha lapho abaphostoli bebuzwa ngombono wabo, owokuqala-ke othi uyakholelwa eNkosini nguyena futhi ongowokuqala ngesithunzi sobuphostoli. Uthi: "UnguKristu, iNdodana kaNkulunkulu ophilayo", futhi uJesu uyaphendula: "Ubusisiwe wena, Simoni ndodana kaJona, ngokuba akukho nyama negazi okukuvezile lokho, kodwa uBaba osezulwini amazulu ". Lokhu kusho ukuthi: ubusisiwe ngoba uBaba ukufundisile, futhi awukhohliswanga yimibono yabantu, kepha ufundiswe ngogqozi lwasezulwini. Ubuyena abukambulelwanga yinyama negazi, kepha ngikuye iNdodana ezelwe yodwa ngaye.

UJesu uyaqhubeka: "Futhi ngiyakutshela": okungukuthi, njengoba uBaba ekwambulele ubuNkulunkulu bami, kanjalo ngikhombisa isithunzi sakho kuwe. "UnguPeter wena". Lokho kungukuthi: uma ngiyitshe elingenakugwemeka, "itshe legumbi elenza laba bantu ababili" (Efe 2,20.14), isisekelo okungekho muntu ongasifaka esikhundleni saso (1 Kor 3,11:XNUMX), nawe uyitshe, ngoba amandla ami akwenza uqine. Ngakho-ke ilungelo lami siqu liyaziswa nawe ngokubamba iqhaza. “Futhi phezu kwaleli dwala ngizokwakha iSonto lami (…)”. Okusho ukuthi, kulesi sisekelo esiqinile ngifuna ukwakha ithempeli lami laphakade. Isonto lami, elimiselwe ukunyukela ezulwini, kuzofanele liphumule ekuqineni kwalolu kholo.