Please read the passage before the homily.
On the way Jesus asked his disciples, “Whom do you say that I am?” Peter answered that Jesus was the Messiah. He is the Christ because he walked the life of the human race up to death and through death to the eternal life of God.
For me, Jesus is the Christ, the one who walks with me in the difficulties of human life until I come to the eternal life of God.
Once, in his human life, Jesus was crucified to death and, after death, he rose from the dead to the throne of the Father.
Now he walks with us in our lives so that we can avoid death an come to the throne of the Father with him.
Jesus says to us, “The one who wants to come with me has to renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me.” When we take up our cross, however, to follow Christ, we discover that Jesus is helping us with our crosses instead of waking ahead of us. The Lord Jesus is at our side and at the same time ahead of us.
Christ first of all had passed through death to the new life. Now, although he lives in the eternal glory of the Father, Christ is with us in the time of our life, walking ahead of us and also at our side.
This is Jesus for me, my exemplar, my Savior and my God. And you, whom do you say Jesus is for you?