Feast of the Chair of Saint
Peter the Apostle
February 22
The feast of the
Chair of St Peter commemorates the teaching authority of the Vicar of Christ.
The Catechism teaches that "it is this Magisterium's task to preserve God's
people from deviations and defections and to guarantee them the objective
possibility of professing the true faith without error" so that "the People of
God abides in the truth that liberates" (CCC 890).
Prayer over
the Offerings
(Today's
Liturgy)
Accept with favor, O Lord, we pray,
the prayers and offerings of your
Church,
that, with Saint Peter as her
shepherd,
she may come to an eternal inheritance,
for it is through his
teaching
that she holds the faith in its
integrity.
Through Christ our Lord.
Communion
Antiphon
(Today's
Liturgy)
Peter said to Jesus: You are the Christ,
the Son of the living God.
And Jesus replied: You are Peter,
and upon this rock I will build my Church.
Prayer after
Communion
(Today's
Liturgy)
O God, who at our celebration
of the feast day of the blessed Apostle
Peter
have nourished us by communion in the Body
and Blood of Christ,
grant, we pray, that this redeeming
exchange
may be for us a Sacrament of unity and peace.
Through Christ our Lord.
Perugino
"Perhaps it would be a good
thing if every Christian,
certainly every priest, could
dream once in his life that he were pope,
and wake from the
nightmare in a sweat of agony." - Msgr Ronald
Knox
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