St. Peter and St. Paul were very different types of people. They didn’t always agree. Yet they shared a common purpose and it is the Spirit of the living Christ that guided them to the final summit of witness, their martyrdom in Rome. They indured imprisonment, torture and death for the sake of Christ they believed in. Finding the middle ground between these two virtues, humility and courage, is not easy, but the virtue of hope makes a unity of the two, just as the power of the Holy Spirit would bind these two remarkable servants together for all eternity. Between the leaf blowing in the wind, and the oak which does not bend but is blown over, we are called to be like supple trees, swaying in the wind of the Holy Spirit but always rooted in truth.
St. John the Baptist PNCC
One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, and democratic – 414 West Oak Street, Frackville, PA | 570-874-1960