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 - Cf. Mt 16:16, 18)
(Today's Liturgy - Cf. Mt 16:16, 18)
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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