29/06/2022

Jesus'promise is in response to Peter's inspired answer, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God". Peter did not find it easy to live up to demands of that inspiration and in the face of mortal danger became a feeble human again. Following the remorse of that night and day, the resurrecton brought him to the state of faithful grace that could face the power of Herod and accept punishment in witness of that inspiration.

Paul's life is being lived as a sacrifece to the Glory of God. He is being poured away as is the blood on the altar in the Temple. He has a wonderful confidence in the power of God to forgive his earlier actions against the disciples and knows that what he has done since the Appearance on the road to Damascus has been accepted by God.

Jesus' promise to protect the Church built on the very human Peter is more important than the backsliding and failures of the Institution that has grown into the Church that we see today. "Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof". It is the promise of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, delivered by Jesus that is still the rock, the rock that cannot be shifted by the misuse of our human freedom which seemingly dominates our prelates and their clergy in these times.

Dear Lord may the Faith  which consumed the first believers in love return to become the most obvious part of your Church on Earth. May we all avoid sin this day and offer a gift of hope and love for the redemption of the whole world. May Mary continue to offer the support she gave to the first friends of her son to all who suffer and believe in this world and in Purgatory.