Friends, this year, the feast of Saints Peter and Paul falls on a Sunday, and I want to spend some time reflecting especially on Saint Peter. Around the year 64, Shimon Bar Yonah, a fisherman from Galilee, was put to death brutally in the Circus of Nero. But while the Roman Empire is long gone and the successor of Nero doesn’t exist, the empire of this fisherman, Peter the Apostle, is everywhere, and in May, his 266th successor walked out onto the loggia of Saint Peter’s Basilica, built over the very spot where he was buried.

Mass Readings:
Reading 1 — Acts 12:1-11
Psalm — Psalm 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9
Reading 2 — 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18
Gospel — Matthew 16:13-19

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