SIMON PETER

To attempt a study on Simon Peter under the guise of a religious meditation can seem to be useless or incomplete. We ourselves consider the present study to be incomplete; useless, no, because the goal we have set is to familiarize ourselves with the great one within the limits that are possible to us. We are not conducting a spiritual criticism. These are the meditations: we are studying the man and for contrast, together with Peter, we will admire always more the immaculate character of the Lord Jesus Christ. It would otherwise be difficult to speak of the man without seeming to be irreverent at times and for this reason we let the study of the little flaws give prominence to the big pictures, and it is the same for great characters. Simon Peter erred many times and had to be reprimanded; he denied the master and had to be forgiven. This is undeniable. But it is likewise true that Frederick the Great of Prussia, a man of iron who was the hero of the Seven Years War and the victor of many campaigns, fled at his first battle.