{"id":31406,"date":"2014-08-24T08:19:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T12:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=31406"},"modified":"2014-08-24T08:20:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T12:20:11","slug":"the-christ-the-son-of-god-st-peter-declares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/08\/the-christ-the-son-of-god-st-peter-declares\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christ, the Son of God, St Peter declares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #141823;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/St-Peter-with-key-to-heaven.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-31407 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/St-Peter-with-key-to-heaven-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"St Peter with key to heaven\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/St-Peter-with-key-to-heaven-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/St-Peter-with-key-to-heaven.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Our reflection for the 21st Sunday through the Year on Matthew 16:13-20 comes from St. Cyril of Alexandria: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #141823;\">\u201cPeter <strong>did not<\/strong> say \u2018you are a Christ\u2019 or \u2018a son of God\u2019 <strong>but<\/strong> \u2018the Christ, the Son of God.\u2019 For there are many christs by grace, who have attained the rank of adopted sons, but only one who is by nature the Son of God. Thus, using the definite article, he said, \u2018<strong>the Christ, the Son of God<\/strong>\u2019. And in calling him the Son of the living God, Peter indicates that Christ himself is life and that death has no authority over him. And even if the flesh, for a short while, was weak and died, nevertheless it rose again, since the Word, who indwelled it, could not be held under the bonds of death.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our reflection for the 21st Sunday through the Year on Matthew 16:13-20 comes from St. Cyril of Alexandria: \u201cPeter did not say \u2018you are a Christ\u2019 or \u2018a son of God\u2019 but \u2018the Christ, the Son of God.\u2019 For there are many christs by grace, who have attained the rank of adopted sons, but only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/08\/the-christ-the-son-of-god-st-peter-declares\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Christ, the Son of God, St Peter declares<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1713],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31409,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31406\/revisions\/31409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}