february 22nd 2003Chair of Saint Peter
The feast of the Chair of Saint Peter commemorates the establishment of the see of
Rome by Saint Peter the Apostle. A second feast is known to have taken place on 22
February, traditionally the day when Peter bore witness, by the Sea of Tiberias, to
the Divinity of Christ and was again appointed by Christ to be the Rock of His Church,
and the day Peter was chosen first pope, but this was in Antioch, not Rome. The
celebration was held in Vatican Basilica, and in a cemetery on the Via Salaria. At
each place a chair (cathedra) was venerated which the Apostle had used while presiding
at Mass.
One of the chairs is referred to about 600 by an Abbot Johannes who had been
commissioned by Pope Gregory the Great to collect in oil from the lamps which burned
at the graves of the Roman martyrs. One of these phials, preserved in the cathedral
treasury of Monza, Italy, had a label reading, "oleo de sede ubi prius sedit sanctus
Petrus" (oils from the chair where Saint Peter first sat). The feast of the Cathedra
Petri was therefore celebrated on the Via Salaria on 18 January; in the Vatican
Basilica it was observed on 22 February.
REFLECTION:
" And so I tell u , Peter; You are a rock and on this
rock foundation I will biuld my church, and not even death will ever be
able to overcome it.I will give you keys of kingdom of heaven; what you
prohibit on earth will be prohibited in heaven, and what you permit on
earth will be permitted in heaven" (Mt 16;18-19)
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Oh! sweet Eucharist ! & beloved Mother keep me as thy own.....
S.THOMAS
NOTTINGHAM
ENGLAND
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