Saturday – 6th Week in Ordinary Time C – Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter, Apostle
Dear brothers and sisters, the Lord give you peace. Today we celebrate a special feast which reminds us of the authoritative Church our Lord instituted to safeguard, promote and treasure the truth he revealed for all time until he returns in glory. A chief player in all of that was Saint Peter, upon whom as we hear in today’s gospel, Jesus builds his Church, initiating the long chain of successors which we can trace all the way back to him from Pope Francis, for whom we offer particular prayers at this time during his illness.