FEAST OF THE SEE OF ST. PETER THE APOSTLE

It's late at night and I should be in bed but I'm trying to back-up my laptop and so I'm awake. This being the feast of the Chair or See of St. Peter I attach a picture of a little reliquary I have which contains a tiny fragment of St. Peter (among others). It reminds me that my faith is not a philosophy or an opinion but an act of trust and belief in the historical reality of the incarnation of the person of Christ the Word who promised to the first Peter to stand by him and all his successors and build His Church on them. In the darkness and sorrow, humiliation and confusion that threatens to smother the Irish Church it reignites for me the light of hope.