St. Peter : (died c. 64), Peter, from the Greek petros & Latin petrus; his original name was Simeon, but Jesus gave him the nickname Cephas, “Rock”. The early Christians recognized him as the leader of the early disciples of Jesus Christ, the Prince of the Apostles, & the “Rock” on which has been built Roman Catholic Church as its first pope. St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is the largest church in Christendom (q.v.). Its construction occupied no less than 181 years (1445-1626). The dome of the church, 404 ft. high from the pavement, spans an internal diameter of 137 ft. Below this lofty dome is the high altar, canopied by Bernini’s magnificent bronze baldachin 95 ft. high. The crypt beneath the altar contains the tomb of St Peter. The interior of St Peter’s is a series of unending marvels, of which probably the most beautiful, certainly the most famous, is the “Pieta”, a marble group by Michelangelo.
... dipping into the Catholic commentator John J. Dougherty. Dougherty adverting to the earliest evangelist, Mark, writes:* "What we call the Gospel of St. Mark was considered the preaching of St. Peter, as Clement and others testify. In fact, its early title was 'The Memoirs of Peter'... Can we reconstruct the history that lies between the preached Gospel and our four written Gospels?... Peter's... speculation and innumerable different views have been put forward, some of which I find attractive, others seem to me quite unconvincing. I find inconsistency in your argument, for instance, that St. Peter in the Acts proclaims the Gospel without reference to the Virgin Birth. But St. Luke, who put this speech into the mouth of Peter, himself believed in the Virgin Birth and found no Page 204 ...
... O'Leary: John Philpot Curran, the barrister, and Father O'Leary were dining one day with Michael Kelly when the barrister said: "Reverend Father, I wish you were St. Peter." "And why, Counsellor, would you wish I were St. Peter?" asked O'Leary. "Because, Reverend Father, in that case you would have the keys of heaven, and could let me in." "By my honour and conscience, Counsellor ...
... light will not be a great light and it will not be permanent. The meaning of this extraordinarily long letter is that I too am tying my bundle, still I believe that this bundle is like the net of St. Peter, all the catch of the infinite is crowded into it. I am not going to open the bundle now. If I do that before the time the sikār might runaway. Neither am I going back to Bengal now. Not because ...
... good deal of criticism, and most contemporary scholars agree that in places St Mark's material bears all the signs of having been community tradition and cannot therefore be derived directly from St Peter or any other eye-witness. But once that admission has been made about some of St Mark's material, it seems only logical to go on and make it about all his material, for,... all of it, without exception ...
... the light will not be a great light and it will not be permanent. The meaning of this extraordinarily long talk is that I too am packing my bag. But I believe that this bundle is like the net of St. Peter, only crammed with the catch of the Infinite. I am not going to open the bag now. If I do that before its time, all would escape. Neither am I going back to Bengal now, not because Bengal is not ready ...
... Krishna, 80, 83, 243, 384, 391 Sri Ramakrishna, 57, 161, 239, 385, 395 St. Augustine, 150 St. Bartholomews, 52 St. Bernard, 150 St. Francis, 150, 164 St. Peter, 382 St. Teresa, 150 St.. Thomas Aquinas, 150 Stalin, 106, 125 Sumeria, 223 Sun-yat-Sen, 242 TACITUS, 87 Tagore, Rabindranath, 195, 197-8, 200-1 ...
... The subliminal man? In every human being there are these two, and if you can say something about the first, how much can you say about the other? The examples of an unlettered Ramakrishna or a St. Peter and others do not prove much; one may say that big spiritual figures can and do take birth in humble social disguises. When all is said and done, the "latent" theory cannot be entirely waved aside ...
... an unreserved self-giving that whatever one is and one has is God's. Between that perfect state at the peak of consciousness and the doubting and hesitant and timid mind at the lower end-that of St. Peter, for example, at his weakest moment – there are various gradations of the conditions fulfilled and the protection given is variable accordingly. Not that the Divine Grace acts or has to act according ...
... aesthetic temperament seems specially to respond. It would be possible to a reader with a depreciatory turn to find flaws in it, such as the pseudo-pastoral setting, the too powerful intrusion of St. Peter and puritan theological controversy into that incongruous setting and the image of the hungry sheep which someone not in sympathy with Christian feeling and traditional imagery might find even ludicrous ...
... cet 'evangile.'" Page 317 that is to say to die in witness to this 'gospel'." Also, the two aspects fuse in another citation by de Lubac in the same note: 3 "On this feast of St. Peter: My dream: to be able to confess, profess my answer to the question: 'Who do they say is the Son of Man?' ...Ans [wer]: ...The coolutive focus of a (the) convergent universe." The traditional ...
... light will not be a great light and it will not be permanent. The meaning of this extraordinarily long letter is that I too am tying my bundle, still I believe that this bundle is like the net of St. Peter, all the catch of the infinite is crowded into it. I am not going to open the bundle now. If I do that before the time the śikār might run away. Neither am I going back to Bengal now. Not because ...
... aesthetic temperament seems specially to respond. It would be possible to a reader with a depreciatory turn to find flaws in it, such as the pseudo-pastoral setting, the too powerful intrusion of St. Peter and puritan theological controversy into that incongruous setting and the image of the hungry sheep which someone not in sympathy with Christian feeling and traditional imagery might find even ...
... But, though not a full member, he supported the Church throughout his reign, thus enabling it to become the dominant religion of the Empire during the fourth century. Page 136 St Peter healing the sick with his shadow (detail), fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Masaccio(1401-1428) A Few dates 27BC-AD ...
... was the elder brother of Saint John. He was one of those privileged to be admitted to the room where Jesus raised the daughter of Jairus to life. He was also one of the three apostles, along with St Peter and St John, who accompanied Jesus when he retired to the mountain in the spring of A.D. 29, and witnessed the transfiguration of Christ. Apostle of Spain, his body reposes at Compostella in Spain ...
... Life Divine. And Sri Aurobindo concluded this extraordinary letter with this truly extraordinary peroration: ...I too am packing my bag. Still I believe that this bundle is like the net of St. Peter, only crammed with the catch of the Infinite. I am not going to open the bag now. If I do that before the time, all would escape. Neither am I going to Bengal now, not because Bengal is not ready ...
... under the weight of the elephant, which is now entering St. Peter's Basilica. In fact, I am in a very uncomfortable posture, for I am not the elephant: I am in his legs, in his nails, and his weight is very, very great, which is why I can't see who is sitting on him. Meanwhile, the elephant has reached Bernini's Baldaquin, inside St. Peter's Basilica, and finally comes up to the Pope's throne, in which... he had three times in a row at a few days' interval. Exactly the same dream, the same unfolding.... Someone sent it to him. Let's see. [Satprem reads:] "It is feast day in the Vatican. St. Peter's Square is jammed with people. The Pope's procession begins; I have witnessed it many times, very near the Pope, next to the cardinals. But instead of the sedia gestatoria [the chair in which the ...
... especially when I saw the Colosseum and the Catacombs, those underground tunnels used in early Christian times for burials and religious services, which had to be kept secret because of persecution. St. Peter's, with its magnificent frescoes by Michelangelo, deeply impressed me. Indeed it was very intriguing to experience the reminders of so much past history. In Verona we were shown the tombs of... then reveal that Truth to me, O Lord." After I had passed my matriculation examinations I returned to East Africa. I wanted to study philosophy and art, and filled in the application form for St. Xavier's College, Bombay. But this plan was turned down—my people wished me to get married. I was adamant that I did not want that kind of life, which I believed was hopeless and in vain. But they ...
... time to come, in this stadium. And then we will determine the measurements of the athletic field’.” 373 And Speer continues: “Hitler wanted a huge meeting hall, a domed structure into which St Peter’s Cathedral in Rome would have fitted several times over. The diameter of the dome was to be eight hundred twenty-five feet. Beneath it, in an area of approximately four hundred and ten thousand feet ...
... the globe in his talons: “The hall was essentially a place of worship. The idea was that over the course of centuries, by tradition and venerability, it would acquire an importance similar to that St. Peter’s in Rome has for Catholic Christendom.” 772 When one surveys the landscape of Hitler’s mind as we have been discovering it up to this point in our story, a big divide seems to run straight through... simple, it was not cold calculation. The propaganda made by Goebbels, Hess, Streicher and Strasser expresses what Hitler believed of himself. Hitler really saw Jesus Christ as his precursor,” writes Peter Orzechowski. And he quotes Hitler’s words from a speech made during the high tide of Nazism: “Today, my German Volk, I ask from you: come and stand with your faith behind me. Be henceforth the source ...
... 222. 22. Giovani di Medici acquired Papal authority in 1503 and tried to consolidate the Vatican after the devastating rulership of Pope Alexander VI. Bramante (1444-1514), the architect of St. Peter's Bassilica, Michaelangelo (1475-1564) the sculptor, and Raphael (1483-1520) the painter were among the artists who found generous employment in Rome during his reign. 23. Vasari, as quoted by... and soon afterwards Leonardo and his friends returned to Florence where he was welcomed with honour and given ample opportunity to work. He made the cartoon for an altarpiece, The Virgin, Child, and St. Anne, and when it was publicly displayed it attracted large crowds of people who came as if attending a solemn festival. But his life was "so irregular and unsettled that he may be said to [have... Raphael, Michaelangelo, Bramante and Peruzzi. 22 He was entertained at the Belvedere, a summer palace atop the Vatican Hill, but Mona Lisa Virgin, Child and St. Ann Page 197 could not find the place he deserved as a master artist and received no large commission from the Pope. In fact, Leo X complained about him: "This man will never get ...
... in Sirach and Jesus in Matthew inviting men to 8 Savitri, p. 345. Page 218 come to her/him for rest. Fr. A. R. Ceresco, a Canadian Hebraist who taught at St. Peter's Seminary, Bangalore and is currently in Philippines, quotes the two parallel passages. We read in Sirach, Come to her (Wisdom) with all your soul And keep her ways with all your might... the cross are not the words Sri Aurobindo makes the Saviour speak. The phrase from St. John's Gospel "It is finished" was used by Sri Aurobindo earlier. In St. Mark and St. Matthew Jesus died with a loud cry. But sometimes before the death he cries out: My God, my God why do you forsake me? 31 In St. Luke three hours before Jesus "gave up his ghost"(=died), one of the two thieves... Christ's in the Bible in the symbolism that is obvious in his words. When Judas Iscariot helps the men of the Jewish Chief Priest to capture Jesus, his disciple Peter attacks the slave who nears his Master and cuts off his ear. Jesus tells Peter to put his sword in his sheath and asks Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me? 29 The word "bitter" is Sri Aurobindo's addition not ...
... Letter to the Galatians", The Jerome Biblical Commentary, edited by Raymond E. Brown, S. S., Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S. J., Roland E. Murphy, O. Carm. (Bangalore: Theological Publications in India, St. Peter's Seminary, 1962, by arrangement with the original Publishers: Prentice Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1968), p. 239, col. 2. 42. W.F. Arndt and F.W. Ginrich, A Greek-English Lexicon... the evangelists' part, there is no ambiguity in their usage. To quote a few passages from The Jerusalem Bible: 34 "As he was walking by the Sea of Galilee he saw two brothers, Simon, who was called Peter, and his brother Andrew.... Going on there he saw another pair of brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John..." (Matthew 4:18, 21) - "Then some Saducees... put this question to him, 'Master... does not at all identify him with Mark's "Jude" or Matthew's "Judas" who is Jesus' brother, any more than "Simon called Zelotes" and the earlier-mentioned choice of Jesus, "Simon, (whom he also named Peter)" (Luke 6:14) whose "brother" is Andrew (ibid.) can be equated to Jesus' brother Simon. None of those who have the same names as Jesus' brothers can be equated to the latter - especially since Acts ...
... superb than the music of Beethoven or Bach, sculpture greater than the statues of Phidias and Michael Angelo, architecture more utterly beautiful than the Taj Mahal, the Parthenon or Borobudur or St. Peter's or of the great Gothic cathedrals? The same may be said of the crafts of ancient Greece and Japan in the Middle Ages or structural feats like the Pyramids or engineering feats like the Dnieper Dam ...
... 12. Ibid., p. 46, fn. 2 continued from p. 45. 13. Edited by Raymond E. Brown, S. S., Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S. J., Roland E. Murphy, O.Carm. (Bangalore: Theological Publications in India, St. Peter's Seminary, 1962, after the Original American Edition Page 229 published by Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1968), The New Testament, p. 65, col. 1. 14... these passages are from speeches assigned to Peter, the third from a speech put into Paul's mouth. Claiming Acts to be a legitimate document for the days of Paul and his contemporary Peter, one may pick up a certain sermon of Peter's and present from it a grossly physical view of Jesus' appearance to this Apostle and to the other chosen witnesses. Peter is made to say: "...we have eaten and drunk with... personally, of any unusual circumstances attending his entry into the world. In no pronouncement attributed to Peter, the foremost of the Twelve Apostles, is the Virgin Birth hinted at: in fact, it is totally out of the picture in all the sermons put into Peter's mouth in Acts as well as in 1 Peter which Roman Catholics sometimes incline to regard as his document. Apropos of the play of imagination ...
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