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September 23 - The Pope is the 'rock' of the Church, says Cardinal Lajolo
The president of the Vatican
City State Governorate,
Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo,
recalled this week that
Pope
Benedict XVI is the
successor of Peter, the
“rock” of the Church, and as
such “strengthens the
brethren” and shepherds “the
flock,” fulfilling the
mission entrusted by Christ
himself for the salvation of
mankind.
In a Mass celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica for a group of German pilgrims, the cardinal explained that the altar in St. Peter’s does not bear the image of the apostle as one would expect because Peter is the living Pontiff who today bears the name of Benedict XVI. The Pope, he said, “is the one who sits on the Chair of St. Peter, the one who carries out his mandate, which Christ conferred to Peter as the ‘rock’ of the Church in order to ‘strengthen the brethren and shepherd the flock.’” This “means guiding the Church today as yesterday throughout the times,” the cardinal said. Consequently an interesting question arises: “Why so much insistence on the symbolic value of this Chair?” he wondered aloud. First of all, Cardinal Lajolo explained, it is because “the Chair sustains the truth that authentically testifies to the word of Christ and protects man, all men, and not only the faithful, from falsehood.” Read More ....
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