{"id":1137,"date":"2006-06-14T08:01:03","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T08:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/sister-churches.html"},"modified":"2006-06-14T08:01:03","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T08:01:03","slug":"sister-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/sister-churches.html","title":{"rendered":"Sister Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past few weeks, Pope Benedict has been reflecting on St. Peter during the General Audiences – today he moved to St. Andrew:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Today, Benedict XVI drew a picture of the personality of the brother of Simon, Andrew, who was the \u201cfirst-called\u201d, and therefore he is known as the \u201cProtoclete\u201d. The Pope said: \u201cIt is certain that because of the brotherly relationship between Peter and Andrew, the Church of Rome and the Church of Constantinople feel, in a special way, like sisters.\u201d He continued: \u201cTo highlight this relationship, my predecessor Pope Paul VI, in 1964, restored the relics of St Andrew, which until then had been kept in the Vatican Basilica, to the Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of the city of Patrasso in Greece, where according to tradition, the apostle was crucified<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And what St. Andrew’s martyrdom teaches us about the Cross:<\/p>\n

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Evident here, continued Benedict XVI, is a very profound Christian spirituality, which considers the Cross not so much an instrument of torture as an incomparable means of full assimilation with the Redeemer. We must learn a very important lesson from this: our crosses acquire value if they are considered and welcomed as part of the cross of Christ, if they are touched by the reflection of his light. It is only through that Cross that our sufferings too are made noble and acquire their true meaning. The apostle Andrew, then, teaches us to follow Jesus promptly (cfr Mt 4:20; Mk 1:18), to speak to Him enthusiastically when we meet, and especially to cultivate a relationship of genuine familiarity with him, well aware that only in Him, we find the ultimate sense of our life and death.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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