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http://latter-rain.com/gospel/peter.htm
The Bible makes only vague reference to Peter’s life after he left Jerusalem. For the next 20 years he apparently traveled from one city to another, from Palestine to Asia Minor, preaching to the small Christian communities as he went. We are told of Peter that his wife accompanied him on his missionary journeys. Church tradition also holds that Peter’s wife was named Concordia, or Perpetua, she also suffered martyrdom as Peter encouraged her to be brave, saying “Remember, dear, our Lord”
The Bible makes only vague reference to Peter’s life after he left Jerusalem. For the next 20 years he apparently traveled from one city to another, from Palestine to Asia Minor, preaching to the small Christian communities as he went. We are told of Peter that his wife accompanied him on his missionary journeys. Church tradition also holds that Peter’s wife was named Concordia, or Perpetua, she also suffered martyrdom as Peter encouraged her to be brave, saying “Remember, dear, our Lord”
http://www.ccel.org/c/chadwick/mark/morneven/page10.html
Especial interest attaches to the mention of the mother-in-law of Peter, as proving that Jesus chose a married man to be an apostle, the very apostle from whom the celibate ministry of Rome professes to have received the keys. The evidence does not stand alone. When St. Paul’s apostolic authority was impugned, he insisted that he had the same right to bring with him in his travels a believing wife, which Peter exercised. And Clement of Alexandria tells us that Peter’s wife acted as his coadjutor, ministering to women in their own homes, by which means the gospel of Christ penetrated without scandal the privacy of women’s apartments. Thus the notion of a Zenana mission is by no means modern.
http://www.christiancourier.com/archives/popeReflections.htm
Matthew records an instance where the Lord healed the apostle’s mother-in-law (8:14). And in a defense of his apostleship, Paul once said that he had as much right to have a wife as Cephas (Peter) did (1 Cor. 9:5).
Additionally, Peter was an “elder” (1 Pet. 5:1), which means that he was also a husband (1
Tim. 3:2).
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a31.htm
. Celibacy of the ministers. If a person desires to remain single to serve the Lord, well and good. It is God’s gift to him. But can a man who desires to serve the church as a bishop be forced to choose between the ministry and marriage, as happens in the Roman Catholic church?
The apostle Peter wouldn’t say so - and I’m sure his wife was a great blessing and help to him in the ministry. However Catholics argue that a minister of God will be more fully able to devote himself to his flock if he doesn’t have family problems to occupy his time. On the contrary the Bible states:
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, … One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God? (1Timothy 3:2 ff).
…ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly (Titus 1:5,6).
So, at least, the Bible allows bishops/elders to be married. Whereas Roman Catholic canon law forbids them this privilege.
http://www.tertullian.org/anf/anf04/anf04-14.htm
**Elucidation.
**Marriage lawful, p. 39.
St. Peter was a married apostle, and the traditions of his wife which connect her married life with Rome itself render it most surprising that those who claim to be St. Peter’s successors should denounce the marriage of the clergy as if it were crime. The touching story, borrowed from Clement of Alexandria, is related by Eusebius. “And will they,” says Clement, “reject even the apostles? Peter and Philip, indeed, had children; Philip also gave his daughters in marriage. to husbands; and Paul does not demur, in a certain Epistle, to mention his own wife, whom he did not take about with him, in order to expedite his ministry the better.” Of St. Peter and his wife, Eusebius subjoins, “Such was the marriage of these blessed ones, and such was their perfect affection.”“footnote/fn9.htm” \l “P939_227714”
The Bible makes only vague reference to Peter’s life after he left Jerusalem. For the next 20 years he apparently traveled from one city to another, from Palestine to Asia Minor, preaching to the small Christian communities as he went. We are told of Peter that his wife accompanied him on his missionary journeys. Church tradition also holds that Peter’s wife was named Concordia, or Perpetua, she also suffered martyrdom as Peter encouraged her to be brave, saying “Remember, dear, our Lord”
The Bible makes only vague reference to Peter’s life after he left Jerusalem. For the next 20 years he apparently traveled from one city to another, from Palestine to Asia Minor, preaching to the small Christian communities as he went. We are told of Peter that his wife accompanied him on his missionary journeys. Church tradition also holds that Peter’s wife was named Concordia, or Perpetua, she also suffered martyrdom as Peter encouraged her to be brave, saying “Remember, dear, our Lord”
http://www.ccel.org/c/chadwick/mark/morneven/page10.html
Especial interest attaches to the mention of the mother-in-law of Peter, as proving that Jesus chose a married man to be an apostle, the very apostle from whom the celibate ministry of Rome professes to have received the keys. The evidence does not stand alone. When St. Paul’s apostolic authority was impugned, he insisted that he had the same right to bring with him in his travels a believing wife, which Peter exercised. And Clement of Alexandria tells us that Peter’s wife acted as his coadjutor, ministering to women in their own homes, by which means the gospel of Christ penetrated without scandal the privacy of women’s apartments. Thus the notion of a Zenana mission is by no means modern.
http://www.christiancourier.com/archives/popeReflections.htm
Matthew records an instance where the Lord healed the apostle’s mother-in-law (8:14). And in a defense of his apostleship, Paul once said that he had as much right to have a wife as Cephas (Peter) did (1 Cor. 9:5).
Additionally, Peter was an “elder” (1 Pet. 5:1), which means that he was also a husband (1
Tim. 3:2).
http://www.justforcatholics.org/a31.htm
. Celibacy of the ministers. If a person desires to remain single to serve the Lord, well and good. It is God’s gift to him. But can a man who desires to serve the church as a bishop be forced to choose between the ministry and marriage, as happens in the Roman Catholic church?
The apostle Peter wouldn’t say so - and I’m sure his wife was a great blessing and help to him in the ministry. However Catholics argue that a minister of God will be more fully able to devote himself to his flock if he doesn’t have family problems to occupy his time. On the contrary the Bible states:
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, … One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God? (1Timothy 3:2 ff).
…ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly (Titus 1:5,6).
So, at least, the Bible allows bishops/elders to be married. Whereas Roman Catholic canon law forbids them this privilege.
http://www.tertullian.org/anf/anf04/anf04-14.htm
**Elucidation.
**Marriage lawful, p. 39.
St. Peter was a married apostle, and the traditions of his wife which connect her married life with Rome itself render it most surprising that those who claim to be St. Peter’s successors should denounce the marriage of the clergy as if it were crime. The touching story, borrowed from Clement of Alexandria, is related by Eusebius. “And will they,” says Clement, “reject even the apostles? Peter and Philip, indeed, had children; Philip also gave his daughters in marriage. to husbands; and Paul does not demur, in a certain Epistle, to mention his own wife, whom he did not take about with him, in order to expedite his ministry the better.” Of St. Peter and his wife, Eusebius subjoins, “Such was the marriage of these blessed ones, and such was their perfect affection.”“footnote/fn9.htm” \l “P939_227714”
and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem.
