February 22 - Chair of St. Peter
(1Pt.5:1-4; Ps.23:1-6; Mt.16:13-19) "On this rock I will build my Church." And Simon's name is changed to "Peter", which means "Rock", to signify that here is the chief shepherd of the Church, upon whom the Church on earth rests. It is he to whom Jesus gives "the keys to the kingdom of heaven." Though all the apostles are given the power to bind and loose, it is Peter who leads – "a fellow elder" among all the elders and yet the one who speaks for all. It is not by man's decision that Peter is the Rock of the Church, but by the word of the Lord Himself. Just as "no mere man ha[d] revealed" to…
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