‘I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven’
The prophet Isaiah (today’s First Reading) reminds us that God’s will is always accomplished. And as we are reminded in the words of the Entrance Antiphon, ‘Save the servant who trusts in you’, it is God’s will that the lowly servant, trusting in God, is to be given the place of honour and authority.
The Psalm might be the voice of that same lowly servant, praising God’s wisdom and knowledge for its depth and richness (Second Reading). Though God is beyond all, the servant’s call is always answered. God looks to the lowly with faithful and merciful love.
This inscrutable wisdom of God becomes apparent in the Gospel. Jesus chooses Peter, who, despite his human failings, is nevertheless to be a rock and custodian of the keys of the kingdom of heaven.
Let us pray, this week, that we might trust the unfathomable wisdom of God. We ask that this wisdom, though from on high, might even look to each one of us, with our own fragilities – and that we ourselves might be God’s choice to spread the joy of the kingdom here and now.
