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Subject: The Daily Gospel
Friday, 22 February
2013
The Chair of Saint Peter, Apostle - Feast
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ
according to Saint Matthew 16:13-19.
....Jesus said to him in reply,
"Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed
this to you, but my heavenly Father.
And so I say to you, you are
Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the
netherworld shall not prevail against it.
I will give you the keys to the
kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and
whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."
Commentary of the day :
Pope Benedict XVI
General Audience of 07/06/2006
(trans. © copyright Libreria Editrice Vaticana rev. ; cf DC no.2361, p. 614)
« I tell you: you are Peter, and
on this rock I will build my Church»
"I tell you: you are Peter,
and on this rock I will build my Church.... I will give you the keys of the
Kingdom of Heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and
whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven" (Mt 16:18-19). In
themselves, the three metaphors that Jesus uses are crystal clear: Peter will
be the rocky foundation on which he will build the edifice of the Church; he
will have the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven to open or close it to people as he
sees fit; lastly, he will be able to bind or to loose, in the sense of
establishing or prohibiting whatever he deems necessary for the life of the
Church. It is always Christ's Church, not Peter's. Thus, vivid images portray
what the subsequent reflection will describe by the term: "primacy of
jurisdiction".
This pre-eminent position that
Jesus wanted to bestow upon Peter is also encountered after the Resurrection:
Jesus charges the women to announce it especially to Peter (cf. Mk 16:7)...
Moreover, the fact that several of the key texts that refer to Peter can be
traced back to the context of the Last Supper, during which Christ conferred
upon Peter the ministry of strengthening his brethren (cf. Lk 22: 31ff.),
shows that the ministry entrusted to Peter was one of the constitutive elements
of the Church, which was born from the commemoration of the Pasch celebrated in
the Eucharist.
This contextualization... also
points to the ultimate meaning of this Primacy: Peter must be the custodian of
communion with Christ for all time. He must guide people to communion with
Christ; he must ensure that the net does not break, and consequently that
universal communion endures. Only together can we be with Christ, who is Lord
of all. Thus, Peter is responsible for guaranteeing communion with Christ with
the love of Christ, guiding people to fulfill this love in everyday life.
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