” ““The school of faith is not a triumphal march, but a path scattered with sufferings and love, ordeals and faithfulness, to be renewed day after day”. It was said by the Pope who today, as usual like last Wednesday devoted the catechesis of the general audience, which was attended by approximately 35 thousand people, to the figure of the apostle Peter, “the reliable witness” even if “he experienced the suffering of unfaithfulness”. After the “confession of the Christological faith of the Church”, the day after the miracle of the loaves and fishes, recalled Benedict XVI, “Peter, who had promised absolute faithfulness, experiences the bitterness and humiliation of repudiation: the braggart learns humbleness at his own expense. Peter too must learn how to be nothing! When at least his masks falls off and he understands the truth of his weak heart as a believing sinner, he bursts into a relieving cry of repentance. After crying, he is ready for his mission”. “Peter’s rash generosity commented the Pope does not protect him from the risks associated with human weakness”. However, it is the only way for Peter, with his “weakness” and then his “unfaithfulness”, to respond to the “mission that Jesus Resurrected would entrust him with” on the banks of Lake Tiberias (to be continued).
