Vatican City, Feb 23, 2016 / 11:23 am
Pope Francis celebrated the feast of the Chair of St. Peter with a reflection and Mass for members of the Roman Curia, during which he told them to be faithful in their work, and to keep their eyes on Christ.
"May our thought and our gaze be fixed on Jesus Christ, the beginning and end of every action of the Church. He is the foundation and no one may lay another," the Pope told members of the Curia Feb. 22.
He recalled the "expressive words" used by St. Augustine, who wrote that although the Church is agitated and disturbed by the upheavals of history, she "does not fall down, because she is built on stone, from which Peter's name is derived."
"It is not the stone that derives its name from Peter, but Peter from the stone, just as it is not the name Christ that derives from Christian, but Christian from Christ," he said, adding that the stone "is Christ, the foundation on which Peter too was built."