Let kings and prophets yield their name to Jesus, true Anointed One, for whom a nation looked in hope yet failed to see that God had done a strange and unexpected thing: God sent a servant, not a king. But God reveals to searching faith the truths that pious dogmas hide: when Jesus asked the twelve his name, blunt Peter stepped forth and replied in words that seemed both right and odd: "You are Messiah, Son of God." Give us, O God, the grace to know the limits of our certainty: help us, like Peter, to declare the still-unfolding mystery of One who reigns though sacrificed, our Lamb and Shepherd, Jesus Christ.