2025 February
This month on the 22nd, the Church ob- serves the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter. The late Pope Benedict XVI explained the spiritual significance of this feast:
On [this feast] we give thanks to God for the mission he entrusted to the Apostle Peter and his Successors. “Cathedra” literally means the established seat of the Bishop, placed in the mother church of a diocese which for this reason is known as a “cathedral”; it is the symbol of the Bishop’s authority and in particular, of his “magisterium”, that is, the evangelical teaching which, as a successor of the Apostles, he is called to safeguard and to transmit to the Christian Community…