{"id":11019,"date":"2016-02-22T08:58:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T13:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/?p=11019"},"modified":"2016-02-22T09:34:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T14:34:44","slug":"the-continuation-of-jesus-mission-of-mercy-on-the-living-peter-chair-of-st-peter-february-22-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/the-continuation-of-jesus-mission-of-mercy-on-the-living-peter-chair-of-st-peter-february-22-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The Continuation of Jesus&#8217; Mission of Mercy on the Living Peter, Chair of St. Peter, February 22, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. Landry<br \/>\nVisitation Mission of the Sisters of Life, Manhattan<br \/>\nFeast of the Chair of St. Peter<br \/>\nFebruary 22, 2016<br \/>\n1 Pet 5:1-4, Ps 23, Mt 16:13-19<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To listen to an audio recording of this homily, please click below:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11019-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2.22.16-Homily-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2.22.16-Homily-1.mp3\">https:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2.22.16-Homily-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The following points were attempted in the homily:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Like any ecclesiastical holy year, the Jubilee Year of Mercy is meant to influence everything the Church celebrates. Today as we mark the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, we can focus on two aspects of God&#8217;s mercy. We&#8217;ve been speaking throughout this Jubilee of Jesus&#8217; five expressions of mercy in the Gospel, all introduced by the Greek verb\u00a0<em>splanchnizomai,\u00a0<\/em>describing how Jesus, sick to his stomach, not only fed, forgave, and healed, but taught and then asked us to pray for laborer&#8217;s to continue the harvest of mercy and called the very ones praying for laborers to be those laborers. Today we celebrate that the first one called from all those prayers beginning in the scene in Matthew 9, until today, through the rest of the history of the Church, was &#8220;Simon, who was called Peter.&#8221; He was chosen to continue Christ&#8217;s mercy as a disciple, as an apostle, and as the rock on whom Jesus would build his Church. We also celebrate, on this feast of the Chair of St. Peter, how Jesus continues his merciful mission of teaching through him.<\/li>\n<li>In liturgical history, the celebration of the\u00a0Feast of the \u201cChair\u201d of St. Peter recalls the day he took up his\u00a0episcopal ministry in Antioch, where he served before coming to Rome. He was Pope from Jesus\u2019 ascension, but he didn\u2019t immediately go to Rome. The early Christians not only celebrated Peter\u2019s heroic martyrdom as a feast but also celebrated the day in which he started to guide the first Christians in the place Jesus\u2019 believers were first called Christians. But it also celebrates something else.\u00a0The chair was the ancient symbol of teaching authority. Teachers would sit and all their students would stand,\u00a0the exact opposite of what happens today. In the Gospel, the evangelists tell us on several occasions that Jesus \u201csat down and began to teach\u201d the crowds. The chair became a symbol of teaching authority and in some ways that remains today, when we refer to the person who has the \u201cchair of philosophy\u201d or \u201cchair of theology\u201d or even the \u201cchairman\u201d of a particular meeting. To celebrate the feast of the Chair of St. Peter is to rejoice in the teaching authority Christ has given him for the sake of his body the Church. Jesus gave Peter the \u201ckeys of the kingdom of heaven,\u201d to bind and loose on earth \u2014 something with a clear application to mercy in this Year of Mercy \u2014 and that even greater authority over the sacraments points to the authority he has to teach authoritatively in Jesus\u2019 name. We retain the expression of the Pope\u2019s teaching\u00a0<em>ex cathedra\u00a0<\/em>(literally \u201cfrom the chair\u201d) to highlight his most solemn teachings to us, applying Christ\u2019s words and wisdom to the present age.<\/li>\n<li>At the beginning of Mass today, we prayed to God the Father, \u201cGrant that no tempests may disturb us\u00a0<em>for you have set us fast on the rock of the Apostle Peter\u2019s confession of faith.\u201d <\/em>This is a reference to today&#8217;s Gospel. After Simon, inspired by God the Father, confesses Jesus as the Messiah and Son of God, Jesus in return gives another, almost equally striking confession: You are\u00a0<em>kepha\u00a0<\/em>(the Aramaic means both the name \u201cPeter\u201d and the thing \u201cRock\u201d), you are Rock and on this Rock, on you, I will build my Church and the gates of Hell won\u2019t prevail against it. Jesus built his Church with an architectural plan and the foundation of the Church would be Peter. That means that if we\u2019re going to be truly Christian, fully Christian, we need to build our faith in Christ on Peter.\u00a0God has set us fast, made our faith steadfast, on the Rock\u2019s confession of faith, and therefore our growth in faith, our deepening of the Christian life, is directly linked to Peter, to the office of the Papacy, and to the responsibilities Christ gave him he passed on to his successors.<\/li>\n<li>In St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica in Rome, this theological truth is artistically depicted. Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the greatest sculptor who ever lived, enshrined the chair that in the 1600s everyone said was the one used by St. Peter 1600 years earlier to teach the faith to the people of Rome. They were mistaken by a measly 800 years \u2014 history then wasn\u2019t what it is now and archaeology basically didn\u2019t exist \u2014 and the chair was actually given to the Pope around the year 800 by the emperor Otto II, but the reality to which the altar of the chair pointed was Peter\u2019s authority, and Bernini illustrated the theology of that authority in this incredible sculpture. On top of the bronze-enshrined chair was the image of the Holy Spirit, showing that the Holy Spirit continued to guide Peter and through him the Church to \u201call the truth,\u201d as Jesus promised during the last supper. Underneath the chair, pointing to and spiritually upholding the legs of the chair, are four great theologians, bishops and fathers of the Church, Saints Ambrose, Augustine, Chrysostom and Athanasius. Their presence shows how bishops and theologians are supposed to support the teaching authority of the Popes, not \u201cchopping off\u201d the legs by undermining that authority. And then on the front of the seat-back is a <em>bas<\/em> relief of Peter\u2019s feeding Christ\u2019s sheep and lambs, the commission Christ gave Peter at the end of St. John\u2019s Gospel after asking him three times if he loved him. Peter\u2019s love for Christ will be shown in his feeding Christ\u2019s flock, and the first way he feeds the flock is through his authoritative teaching in Christ\u2019s name. Just as the evangelists tell us that Jesus had pity on the crowds and began to teach them many things, so Peter, sharing in Christ\u2019s compassion and in his name, teaches.<\/li>\n<li>The teaching authority of the Pope has been so important throughout Church history. We see even in the Acts of the Apostles how there were disputes about whether Gentile converts needed to follow the whole Mosaic law and how Peter intervened in\u00a0the\u00a0Council of Jerusalem. Much later there were huge issues with whether Christ was fully God and fully man, whether he was two persons or one person and two natures, whether he had the full complement of a human body, soul and spirit, whether he\u00a0had\u00a0one will or two wills, whether the Holy Spirit was divine, what the sacraments were and whether they were necessary for salvation, which sacred writings were truly inspired and binding, and so many other concerns. It was the work of the Popes and the early ecumenical councils to guide the Church through this time of confusion and division. The Pope was the central\u00a0reference\u00a0point. After Pope Leo the Great intervened with a famous \u201cTome\u201d to guide the deliberations of the Council of Chalcedon in 451, many said, in a phrase that has since become famous, \u201cRoma locuta est. Causa\u00a0finita est.\u201d \u201cRome [Peter] has spoken. The matter\u2019s been put to rest.\u201d What a work of mercy this is!<\/li>\n<li>That teaching authority is just as important today. Whereas in the early Church, most of the disputes were about dogmatic issues, today most of the confusion concerns moral issues, what love for neighbor really means with regard to\u00a0abortion and\u00a0euthanasia,\u00a0to love, marriage, sexuality and family, to care for immigrants and the poor and so on. There are many people, including some Catholics, who think they know better than the Holy Spirit what is the truth with regard to these issues. That\u2019s\u00a0why\u00a0the Pope\u2019s voice is so important.\u00a0To be truly Catholic, we need to hold fast to the living Peter\u2019s confession of faith, especially in the \u201ctempests\u201d of the world. It&#8217;s also why we need to pray for the Pope that he exercise his teaching office effectively, passing on with clarity and passion what he himself has received through the Church.<\/li>\n<li>I want to finish today by referring to another way the living Peter, the Pope, continues Christ&#8217;s work of mercy. \u00a0He\u00a0feeds Christ\u2019s flock not only by his teaching but by giving us Jesus\u2019 body and blood. Peter, we know, is the one who gave the great confession of faith in Jesus\u2019 real presence in the Eucharist. After Jesus told us that we needed to gnaw on his flesh and drink his blood to have life in us, after many of the disciples abandoned Jesus because they found that teaching too hard to endure, and after Jesus turned to the apostles and asked whether they, too, would abandon him, that\u2019s when Peter stood up and said, \u201cLord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.\u201d Peter didn\u2019t know better than anyone else how Jesus would give us his body and blood \u2014 he wouldn\u2019t until exactly a year later when during the Last Supper he would totally change bread and wine into his body and blood and give himself to us to eat \u2014 but because he believed in Jesus, he believed in what he said. We hold fast to that confession of faith in Christ. At St. Peter\u2019s Basilica this relationship between Peter and the Sacrament of the Eucharist is depicted artistically again. The tabernacle in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel is a replica of a famous Church dedicated to St. Peter elsewhere in Rome, called San Pietro in Montorio. Bernini and the Church wanted to show the connection between Peter and the Eucharist and thought that it wouldn\u2019t be attractive, for example, to have a tabernacle shaped like a man with a key in the belly button and taking out the ciboria from the peritoneum. Instead they took a Church that symbolized Peter and placed Jesus within, to show that without holy orders, without the priesthood that finds its source of unity in Peter, there would be no Eucharist.\u00a0So at the Mass, we have the double feast of the liturgy of the Word and the liturgy of the Eucharist and in both Peter\u2019s authority is key. He nourishes us first with the Word of God and the applications of that Word to Christian life and then he nourishes us with the Word made Flesh.\u00a0Peter was present at the first Mass and then celebrated the Eucharist for the early Christians with the table of the Word and the table of the Eucharist. And so today we thank the Lord for the gift of his work, his Church founded on Peter, his teaching through the Pope, his giving of the Sacraments, the merciful binding and loosing that happens through the Sacrament of Mercy, and we ask for the grace to hold fast to not only to Peter&#8217;s\u00a0continual confession but subjectively to echo that proclamation of faith, that the one we are to receive is indeed the Christ, the Son of the Living God. And we pray in a special way for the 266th Peter, Pope Francis, that his faith may never fail, that he may strengthen us his brothers and sisters with Jesus\u2019 teaching, and help us all to confess Jesus in the world to be the Messiah and Savior of the World.\u00a0.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The readings for today\u2019s Mass were:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Reading 1<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/1peter\/5:1\">1 PT 5:1-4<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>Beloved:<br \/>\nI exhort the presbyters among you,<br \/>\nas a fellow presbyter and witness to the sufferings of Christ<br \/>\nand one who has a share in the glory to be revealed.<br \/>\nTend the flock of God in your midst,<br \/>\noverseeing not by constraint but willingly,<br \/>\nas God would have it, not for shameful profit but eagerly.<br \/>\nDo not lord it over those assigned to you,<br \/>\nbut be examples to the flock.<br \/>\nAnd when the chief Shepherd is revealed,<br \/>\nyou will receive the unfading crown of glory.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Responsorial Psalm<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/psalms\/23:1\">PS 23:1-3A, 4, 5, 6<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>R. (1)\u00a0The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.<br \/>\nThe LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.<br \/>\nIn verdant pastures he gives me repose;<br \/>\nBeside restful waters he leads me;<br \/>\nhe refreshes my soul.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.<br \/>\nEven though I walk in the dark valley<br \/>\nI fear no evil; for you are at my side<br \/>\nWith your rod and your staff<br \/>\nthat give me courage.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.<br \/>\nYou spread the table before me<br \/>\nin the sight of my foes;<br \/>\nYou anoint my head with oil;<br \/>\nmy cup overflows.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.<br \/>\nOnly goodness and kindness follow me<br \/>\nall the days of my life;<br \/>\nAnd I shall dwell in the house of the LORD<br \/>\nfor years to come.<br \/>\nR.\u00a0The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h4>Gospel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/bible\/matthew\/16:13\">MT 16:13-19<\/a><\/h4>\n<div>When Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi<br \/>\nhe asked his disciples,<br \/>\n\u201cWho do people say that the Son of Man is?\u201d<br \/>\nThey replied, \u201cSome say John the Baptist, others Elijah,<br \/>\nstill others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.\u201d<br \/>\nHe said to them, \u201cBut who do you say that I am?\u201d<br \/>\nSimon Peter said in reply,<br \/>\n\u201cYou are the Christ, the Son of the living God.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus said to him in reply, \u201cBlessed are you, Simon son of Jonah.<br \/>\nFor flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father.<br \/>\nAnd so I say to you, you are Peter,<br \/>\nand upon this rock I will build my Church,<br \/>\nand the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.<br \/>\nI will give you the keys to the Kingdom of heaven.<br \/>\nWhatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven;<br \/>\nand whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/08chair.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11023\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11023\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/08chair.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Gian Lorenzo Bernini's sculpture behind the main altar in St. Peter's Basilica is lit by candles on the Feb. 22 feast of the Chair of St. Peter, Apostle in this 2004 file photo. The annual feast day, celebrated since ancient times, marks the role of St. Peter and his successors as head of the church. (CNS photo\/courtesy of Fabbrica di San Pietro) (Feb. 3, 2006) See VATICAN-LETTER Feb. 3, 2006.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/08chair.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/08chair.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/08chair.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/catholicpreaching.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/08chair.jpg?w=1700&amp;ssl=1 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Roger J. 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