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Pope Francis said the Gospel story makes clear that “Jesus wanted for his church a visible center of communion in Peter and in those who would succeed him in the same primatial responsibility, which from the origins have been identified in the bishops of Rome, the city where Peter and Paul gave the witness of blood.”
Indeed, he said, “All of us, however small, we are made ‘living stones’ of his love, and so we have a place and a mission in the church, which is a community of life, made of many stones, all different, that form one only building in the sign of fraternity and communion.”
He concluded by reminding all the faithful that Jesus builds his church on “the rock,” that is Peter and his successors as bishops of Rome.
americamagazine.org/faith/2017/08/27/pope-francis-jesus-made-peter-and-his-successors-bishops-rome-center-communion
Indeed, he said, “All of us, however small, we are made ‘living stones’ of his love, and so we have a place and a mission in the church, which is a community of life, made of many stones, all different, that form one only building in the sign of fraternity and communion.”
He concluded by reminding all the faithful that Jesus builds his church on “the rock,” that is Peter and his successors as bishops of Rome.
americamagazine.org/faith/2017/08/27/pope-francis-jesus-made-peter-and-his-successors-bishops-rome-center-communion