Yet He doesn't come to conquer, but came destined to suffer as the means to win salvation, in the spirit of the servant in the first reading from Isaiah.
St. Peter declares Jesus as the Christ, but then rebukes Him for predicting His passion and suffering, after which Jesus rebukes Him for thinking as humans do and not as God.
In this new life, we live differently from the ways of the world. We are called to demonstrate that we have died to the ways of the world and are living in the ways of Christ, doing as St. James writes and demonstrating our faith by our works that meet the needs of others. (We give thanks today for grandparents and the ways they put faith into action by continually showing their love to all those in their families.)
Furthermore, living our Christian faith entails suffering as we follow in the way of Christ. Yet that is where God's power of redemption manifests itself, in the great paradox, that in suffering and dying, we rise to new life. We experience that new life even now as we follow His ways, living out our belief in Who Christ is.
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