22/02/2022

St Peter speaks as an elder to the other elders of the fledging Church and "not for sordid money". We have to accept that the geriatric Church that we have now is what God wants for us.  A bigger cynic than I would say that our Church is all for sordid money,

"Be not a dictator" wrote Peter. I wonder if today Pope Francis applies those words to himself; he certainly must remember the dictators of his homeland. "Be an example" writes Peter. Is the travelling circus that the succesors to St Peter have become ever since the invention of the jet plane the example that God wants us to have.

I have a vested intererest in the feast "St Peter's Chair in Rome" as it  was celebrated on  my birthday now it has been incorporated into St Peter's Chair in Antioch which is today. At the time of Jesus Caesarea Phillipi had a mixed population of Jews and Gentiles and it is there that this question was posed and not in Jerusalem. From the answers recorded as being received it seems that the gentiles had not attempted to answer.

Peter's answer and Jesus reply have grown into the enormous institution that is the Church today. Is this  really what Father Son and Holy Spirit wants for mankind?

Dear Lord help me to find the Holiness that is still somewhere in the Church that you founded Let me add my prayers to those of the faithfull that worship you today.