Simon Called Peter - Dom Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori

By Dom Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori, O Cist

In the Company of a Man in Search of God

Simon Peter, the fisherman who was both attracted to Jesus and repelled by his own weakness, who in faith walked on the water and in fear began to sink; the ardent disciple who promised to die for His Lord and then moments later betrayed Him, who needed to reaffirm his yes to God over and over again, even unto a martyr’s death: Is he not a model for many of us who desire to love and trust the Lord completely, yet who struggle daily to pick up our cross and follow Him?

Abbot Lepori’s meditation on the relationship between our Lord and St. Peter invites us to consider our own relationship with Christ. As he imaginatively retells the well-known stories from the Gospels, he makes them present to us, deepening our understanding of the calling we have received from Jesus and strengthening our confidence that the Lord will, indeed, bring to completion the work of love He has begun in us.