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The Chair of Peter: Furniture Matters…

As a convert you come across some unusual practices within the Catholic faith (said he, making the understatement of the year)

One of them for me was to find that there was a feast day for a chair. What was I–poor Bob Jones graduate that I was–to make of such an odd celebration? There it was in the ordo as large as life–the Feast of the Chair of Peter.

What was a feast for a chair and what was the chair? Was it the splendid chair that pope sits on to be carried about surrounded by lackeys with peacock fans like some great Eastern potentate? My love for the dramatic gesture surged forward. Was the chair of Peter some obscure reference to a Peter I’d never heard of from a land far away and a time in the distant past? I was told it was a celebration of the Petrine Ministry, but this did not enlighten me much for I had not learned in my Sunday School lessons at the Baptist church what a “Petrine Ministry” was. What is a “Petrine” I thought it might be some sort of porpoise–”Look! The petrines are swimming and jumping!” Or perhaps a Petrine was an unusual type of plum. “I think for dessert I’ll enjoy one of these delicious Petrines.” What then would be a “Petrine Ministry?”

Praise the Lord

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