Peter, the Pope said, “was to learn everything day by day, as a disciple, a follower of Jesus, walking in his footsteps.” Only then, he continued, “did Peter arrive at the spiritual maturity that brought him, by grace, to so clear a profession of faith.”

That answer, he said, was “the fruit of a journey” he experienced by following the Lord, walking with Him and behind Him for some time. Peter, the Pope explained, responded to Jesus’s question ‘Who do you say that I am?’ (Mt 16:16) with the words ‘You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God”. Pope Francis presides at Mass on the Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul He began his homily recalling the lives and choices of Peter and Paul, “two apostles in love with the Lord, two pillars of the faith of the Church.”Īnswering the question ‘Who is Jesus in my life?’, both of them provide witness and indications on how to grow as Church. Reflecting on how the Church is called to grow in the same way “by following the Lord, constantly and humbly seeking Him out,” and by “preaching the Gospel before the world and opening people’s hearts to the presence of God,” the Pope invited the faithful to bring Jesus everywhere, “especially in those places where poverty, decay and marginalization are deeply rooted.” In his homily, the Holy Father focused on the teachings of Peter and Paul who answered that essential question in life – “Who is Jesus for me?” – by following Him as His disciples and by proclaiming the Gospel. Pope Francis blessed the pallia for the new Metropolitan Archbishops on the Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul, and presided at the Mass in St.

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