June 29. SEE.    St Peter and Paul. It’s hard for us with internet and cell phones to imagine how it was 2000 years ago in the very early days of the Church.   Peter had been with Jesus from the beginning, and here was this upstart Paul, who had been persecuting the followers of “the Way” and was now preaching with such a loud voice what he believed and was inspired to say. It took some time for the two men to meet and discuss their differences and they did then reach an amicable solution. In today’s different leadership crises at any level do we try to reach a consensus, or do we start a war? The Reformation in the 1500s was started over a difference and since then 1000s of break-away churches have started. But Christian unity has now again become an important goal. 

JUDGE. Reflect, share. Scripture.  I, Paul, went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and remained with him fifteen days.   Gal 1:19-20.  Pope Francis:  The rich heritage of Christian spirituality; the fruit of twenty centuries of personal and communal experience has a precious contribution to make to the renewal of humanity.  Admittedly Christians have not always appropriated and developed the spiritual treasure bestowed by God upon the Church, where the life of the spirit is not dissociated from the body, or from nature or from worldly realities, but lived in and with them, in communion with all that surrounds us.  LS 216.   Pope Leo: Whenever humanity is in danger of marring its true identity, we, Christians, lift our eyes to the Incarnate God, knowing that it is “only in the mystery of the Word made flesh that the mystery of humanity truly becomes clear.  In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. MH1.    

ACT AND PRAY. In dialogue with technology and human experience pray for increasing unity amongst Christians in memory of Sts Peter and Paul. .