” “"A primacy established for all times" which must be recognised "in its true meaning" by "those brothers who are not in full communion with us yet". With these words, the Pope defined "Peter’s primacy" as he closed off the cuff today’s catechesis which was attended by about 40 thousand people in a sunny Saint Peter’s Square. "May Peter’s primacy, entrusted to poor human people, always be exercised in its original meaning as wanted by the Lord, and may it thus be in its true meaning recognised by those brothers who are not in full communion with us yet’, the prayer with which Benedict XVI closed the general audience devoted (as the two previous ones of May 17th and 24th) to the figure of the apostle Peter and his role within the Church. Peter’s ministry, recalled the Pope, consists in "confirming his brothers" and is "one of the ‘constituent parts’ of the Church." "This is a primacy established for all times", stated the Pope, still off the cuff, according to whom "Peter wants to be the guardian of communion with Christ, guide to communion with Christ and guide communion", so that "the net won’t break, but the great universal communion remains, through which alone we can together be with Christ, who is the Lord of all of us". ” “
