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Absolution, by fanlay Lections: The Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost ( Lectionary 21 ), AD 2026 A Homily: Lord, we pray for the preacher, for you know his sins are great. Grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” Our Gospel reading this morning kicks off with perhaps the most loaded question in the New Testament. At first blush, an answer might seem simple. Throughout most of the Hebrew Scriptures, “son of man” serves as an idiom for humankind. Just as the son of a duck is a duck, and the Son of God is God, so is the son of man a man. Not exactly rocket science. But the plot thickens once we hit the Book of the Prophet Daniel. A latecomer to the Old Testament, the Book of Daniel purports to be the prophecies of a legendary figure some 500 years before Christ. Modern scholarship indicates that the book as we have it now was edited much later, in the second century before Christ, but it stil...
