LES LARMES DE PIERRE
COPSIDAS MARINA
Code EAN : 9782204098540
Editeur : CERF
Date de parution : 25/10/2012
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Peter, the foremost of Christ's apostles, proved to be Christianity's ‘stumbling block', leading to the separation of the Churches during the second millennium. But who is Peter? It is by studying Simon Peter in the Scriptures - 235 verses in all - that we rediscover the most turbulent and most humble disciple. But even more, it is through his bitter tears of repentance, following his three successive denials (Matthew 26, 69-75), that Peter reveals himself as a model for all Christians, regardless of his shortcomings, because of his fidelity and his love for Christ (John 21, 15-19). Totalitarian atheism collapsed in the late 20th century, but no one can deny that the de-Christianisation of the West has constantly progressed. Hence, we must not shrink from an attentive and critical examination of the history of Christianity: what it is, and what it has become. At the dawn of the third millennium, and half a century after Vatican II, this pilgrimage in the footsteps of Peter appears like an ecumenical act and a path of hope towards Christian unity: ‘The ferment of human unity must be Christian unity... I belong to every Church, or rather to one sole Church, the church of the resurrected Christ who resurrects us and gives us the strength to love... We Christians ask for nothing, impose nothing, but we must show that life has a meaning, that it is immense, that it is heading towards eternity.' (Patriarch Athenagoras, 1969).

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