¿Qué Haría Jesús? - RETIRO DE MES - Octubre 2025 - "Pedro, el príncipe de los apóstoles"

Episode Date: October 4, 2025

Predicador: P. Fernando Morales, LC.El retiro del mes de octubre está dedicado a San Pedro, el príncipe de los apóstoles. Descubrimos su vida, su misión al lado de Cristo, su obra al frente de la Iglesia naciente y cómo su testimonio de fe sigue siendo un pilar para todos los cristianos.Recuerda compartirlo a quien creas que le pueda ser de ayuda. ¡Dios te bendiga!

Today I want to share with you some reflections about of the prince of the apostles, the Apostle San Pedro. Because not only is a person central in the Evangelios, but

that, also is a image powerful that represents many aspects of our seguiment of Christ, of our life spiritual, and we can identify

us in many moments with him. For that I think that it can be sumamente provisoso for our lives, contemplar this figure and his

relation with Jesus. So, we're going to start, knowing some some of the different of his life. We know that

he was born in the people of Betsaida, near to Kfarnaum, where he lived after. Is

is to say, in the orilla, the north of the lake, there's he's a brother of Andres,

another of the Apostores, Pedro and Andres. Ambos were there in Belsaida, but then

we know that they've in this city of Kafarnaum. How was the name of

Pedro? We have two relato distinct about the call. The most

probable is that the version more near the story is the way that we

know San Juan in the Evangelio. We said that Andres he

was first because very probably probably was a disciple of San

Juan the Baptist he he he he he

he to Pedro, his brother, and he he told about Jesus, and he said

that he had encountered the messias, what he said the

Christ, and he he was to Jesus. One of the phrases more

about an brother that he he he he

he he to the encounter to he he

does to he does the the major the

life. And then it's where we can't imagine to think that, very probably, Peter, at Connoissemars with him, is then when he's invited to go to work, to

predicate, to live, to the city of Kaffarnahun. Kafernaud, that is in this case, in the side of the west of the Lago, not so too

very of his original Betssaida. There was Jesus to

live and to pray to when he started his ministerial and it's very probably

that has been Peter who had been invited and Peter he offered

to live to be hospet in his house and for

So we know that the Casa of Pedro was the place, the center of operations, the place where the

people would have to get to get to Jesus, where they were to hear the

power, where Jesus was miracles, predications, is that the house of

Peter is a in, in a certain sense in the first church

in the place where all to to look to Christ. And, so,

it's also a symbol, a image of the Church Catholic. Because it's

that the house of Peter where everyone not to Peter, but to

Jesus. And that is the Church Catholic also. The same

is in the relato of St. Lucas, where he surralla that Jesus was up

the barca of Peter, and and from he predicate the

predicate the word and then also we can't see in that bar

of Peter from the which all they're an

another image also of the church led by Peter

until the day of today in the person of the

saint Pad well Peter would then would then

to Jesus would one of the Apostoles, until

that in a certain moment is nombrated the first

of the Apostoles, the chief of the Apostoles. We have

an image of this and even we have

that that the nombram explicit when in Cese

of Philippe in the north of the Tira Santa

Jesus he He asks to his apostles, who are you, after the

time of having them to have you after the conclusion have gone about the mystery of

Jesus. And it's then when Peter, that had that had that was the

leadership, and the other about the people, you are the messias, the

the child of God and then it's there is there where Jesus he

says, that that profound and so true and a very not came to his own

self the body and the body of the body not he didn't he

the father celestial has inspired God but then then he said

that Jesus he said to talk about about his passion and of

his death that he had to be been to be he was

then when Peter is scandal is terroriza and

he says that no that that of of any manner, that that can't

be, that not they're to not to be and

Jesus immediately after to have celebrated to him he

he says because he says you not you

don't you know you are very too well

well well it's in the context he's he said you are

Peter you are is Pedro. He changed the name. Pedro, not was a name originally,

but simply is the word, Piedra, converted to the gender masculine, the way that he

called Peter or would be in Spanish, originally, Piedro, to say that he will

be a rock, over the which he will to build a church, a kind of

a a kind of fundamental solid. We know that the rock solid over the

church is Christ, but he will be a represententate of Christ. And for so he

will say, I'll say, I will be the keys of the reigning of the

world. It's saying, it's not his first minister in the

reino. It's is a person in that represent in that person

that person that has, has delegated the authority of a plan and potentiary,

in a certain sense. So, Jesus, dandol this leadership,

this role, this paper that's encargant to maintain unied to your

church. So, we're this position of leadership, this position predominant that's

the person to do to Peter. But the time the same time the

evangelicals also us also we're also from the first of the first time

after the peska indignive and we we can't think that what what occurred

front to the lake of galilea in the river he says that after

the peska milagro pedro he postro under Jesus and he said

apart from me, sir, that I am a poor a peccor, full of fear,

he was he was a point of the point of that was the sentiment that

he was a man who he went to his different moments of his life and a

mission so great. And this is a aspect that

should be also also be part of our

following, on one the conciencia profound of our nothing the conscience

profound of that we're the record clear of that we've

failed many many and at the time see that

Christ can can perceive in Pedro a potential

a one don't a future a a plan a

a vocation a mission a He said in Peter, a saint, a future saint, a saint, a saint that is in

process, that is a prendending, a saint that still he has many failures but that will be very far. Levera very physically, because he willer in Rome, but

also will be very very much in his mission, in the predication, in the fruit of his life, and finally will get very and lejos, Dando the life for the

Lord in the martyrio of the cross. Jesus is capable of all that all that

and we know that also there another scene that we in the last

the last time when in the border of the lake Jesus

took a conversation profound with Peter to to

and he and he to and he because he has

some the he has he's that Peter in this moment after the

resurrection is profoundly doled but especially profoundly repented to have

never to have never that in the passion Peter had

never to his three three three three for

panic for fear first he was night during the juice of

Sanedrine, Peter entered in panic. So, in that moment, before the

creada of the sum sacerdote, Pedro neged three times to his Lord.

And then we know that, salient out, he wrote amargamently. That

scene, that moment terrible, that that peccado that grave of having

negated to that he had had had all his

confidence was something that's a little and more

specifically the mind the last after that was

a minute that has a minute that was

completely penetrating and he he he he he

he he did the end immediate so so

so this episode of the negation had been something that even pesable in the conscience of

Peter. A detail relevant about that negation and that repentiment is that he can't

a gaio and it's very interesting because Jesus he said, before that he can't

the gaio me have you've been three times that simply significable before

to ameces this this this night not you mean

originally more than that the guill is symbol of the amecer

then it was a way you me never soon this

this morning this night before the fact was a prophecy that

was a really really a god and that

was providern because the gallo that is in certain

sense, the desperator of the naturalness, that animal that for the

morning makes that the thing that that's a lot of all, was

the instrument to start the the idea that

had had had never had done to not

he had to that he had a guy that

was that that would that would that would

that conscience. And for that also, too, it's important to ask you to the Lord that us regale always gallos, that dispirte our conscience adormecised for the

the sincould. That constantly we don't know- that we really offend us to the Lord in many times and we don't know because we have the conscience adorncised. Well, well, Pedro,

that had been, had have his conscience a through of the

gancho Pedro that had year that had a

lot to his his son he had that

the river of the river and the river

of the but at the same time profound, important he says, Simon, I'm, me amas more

than these? Referringing to the other disciples that were there on the day at the morning,

before of the morninger along the lake of Galilea, me amas

more than these? Pedro responded yes, yes, you know, you know, you know, you know, and then he

made upacient to my corderos. He said, that apacentara to his corderos. Después, other two times he will say, he'll say,

apacient to my obejas. But the first he said, Apacienta, my cordelers, because he had asked him

more than this. Is that was saying, he was saying to Peter, that in first

the other place, he incommendable, not only only the whole rebaunch, but he'll say, of these, of the other apostles, he's saying, yes, are

many apostles, but you are the the head of the college apostorical, you're going to be the that you're going to the other

apostles, the apostle of the apostles or the prince of the apostles, then he manned to

the cordelers. And then he asked two times. The

second he says Simon and he Juan you know but he says

yes you know you say he said he says pacient

my obehas is that my rebao of my

church but every that Jesus had asked if

me am you said Peter had responded you

you know you know that you I'm saying

not he was a word because I'm not a bad

because I'm humility was I'm saying I'm know

you know you know I'm that I feel I'm so I

use the word I'm the word I'm but then

the third time Jesus he said to Peter

simon Simon of Juan me you're and then here

is where we're he's entristeed Peter of that the third time Jesus

he asked me you know he doesn't he he asked me amas

and then Peter he said you know you you know you you know

you know that you know that he's that he knows all his heart

all those things. He's saying, you know, you know you know you know the you know the

truth. And then Jesus also he will affirmate my apacienta my obejas.

It's saying that again, he will be the pastor. Jesus he had

said to Peter, I'll be a peskator of the beginning,

he's now he's saying, I'm I'm I'm a

pastor of my rebao. And then Pedro, de new,

receive that mission, but with the novelty of that this is the

reaffirma the Lord after to have legado to Jesus. And

after to have pardoned, he says Jesus, I have been

and I'm nomading and I know I know I

know. I'm think you are very that you that

that you're humilde. I know that you can't you want to try to

try to try to you're the next time. And so we've how

Peter after the ascension of the Christ's the

ministry his predication the the the the the

and concretement we know in the the preaches, of the apostles, some episodes and one in concrete

that, of new, was revelator for Pedro. Pedro had been a first call of Jesus to follow it, as a apostle. Then, the Lago, also

of Galilea, after the Resolution, Jesus he had said other words mysterious, after that dialogue, that my, amas, me want, He said to Pedro, when you were

young, you were you besties and you went to where you were, but when you are old, another will you, you know, you don't want. You don't want you, no, you're not. You don't want to hear you. Referringing to the martyr. He had announced that he also even he was to move to the cross,

without say to it explicitly for not to astustarlo. But he said, well, well, that was a second and amado to Peter, but now there's

a third revelation, a third moment, another change

important in the life of Peter. And this did in the city

of Jope or Jaff that us told, the issues of the Apostores

that there came Peter invited, invited, called, convocated

by the Christian that had in that city and

they were to resuscite to a woman that had had fellecid

and that was very and that was known as Tabita

so was Peter over that the miracle and

he was a time in that the city.

Well, well, it's that he's an host in the house of Simon

the courtidor, as us said, the The Apostore,

a house front of the mar, then they sent them an commitiva

to call it to get to Cesaria Maritima by part of a

soldier Roman, a centurion called Cornelio. While these soldiers sentineled, these soldiers who were called to him to hear him,

to bring him to Cornelio, Pedro had a vision. He was said that after to orar, he was a kitchen to prepare

to something, and while he wasin'n he, he wastesy. An ecstasis in the which he saw a a mantel on which

there was all the type of animals. And a voice he said two words,

Mata and he said, and he repeated, Mata and come. In the context

Judeo, these words are really scandalous because the animals that were

on that were all type of animals even reptiles and quadruped, is to say, animals prohibit

for the law Jewish, what we call or what is the food kosher, which is

the food legitimate, pura, for the Jews. And that Pedro, as a

judy that was, respectable these normas alimenticies. So, he's

negate and says that no. That, in any manner, he never

offendered to God coming animals prohibited. And this voice he would

to repeat. No, yams impure what God has

done. And he repeated three times. And after that

disappeared that vision. Pedro piti light to the Spirit

Santo to understand what was that vision, what were that were

that was that was a a thing puramente

dietetic because effectively then the church especially for the words of

Jesus, that is what is what is what is impure but what is

what is the thing that the church the not the normas

dietetic of the Antiv Testament not are not are

necessary but here not a thing a thing

that Peter would I would discover a more more profound. And is

that he was that he said, God, reveal to what is what you are doing

to this vision that I I've got to have then. Then he's

the door, to come to the door and they asked for Pedro.

When he he came these people, of Cesarea Maritima, of part of a centurion Roman, is to say,

of a pagan, of a non-Judeau, that was a person to come to say, please, then,

the message of Jesus Christ, I'm baptize me. And it's in that he he's in the words that

they said, no, yames impurro to what God has done, pure, is there

to the people, pagans, to the people pagans, to the non-judios, that were called, we're called

to the Evangelion, and that the church in that moment was to be to be to bring to the rest of the world, to the world entire. Is that is that moment the church would come to officially

to be Catholic in the sense profound of the termino Greek, which means universal. So, Peter, de new, has a experience

that for him was inconceivable. Jamas would have imagined this. But the Spirit

Santo he makes that the plans of God are different. And at that

time, Peter also will help the other apostles

to understand that God wants the salvation of

all the people. So Peter will his mission

too to other cultures and And he'll from the the

Church Santa to go to Antioquia and then will go to

his recorriot to get to the city of Rome where finally

would would would finally would give his life

well Pedro that he had failed the Lord in the

passion Peter that not had been present in

the moment of the crucifixion finally would be in the cross,

but in the cross, where he was crucified for love to Christ, for

give testimony of Christ. And today, the church vener the tomb

of this peskador. In the the church the world entire,

the basilica of San Pedro, which is, precisely the tomb

of this pescator. And And, of this tomb that's a tomb that's under the

altar major of the Basilica of San Peter, no recalls those

words about this the the building my church because

seeing that the basilica that a one is a symbol of

the church is a church is built on the tomb

of Peter on the rock of Peter no

not only not only the words of the but another

actually and is that the martyrio of Peter as the first of

the two apostles is for us for us a rock a fundamental

for why? Because Peter and the other apostles that

suffered the martyrio and were the people the

apostles that did their life, or better said, we're

saying that they're firm their testimony with their

own their life, and each one of them different

ways. But Pedro in some resume the testimony

of all these apostles so this Peter is

the that the that the kind of some

sort synthesize the testimony firmed with the same because the apostles commensating by Pedro and continuing

with the other people also we're the first of the two apostles in receiving the

apparition of the Lord Resuscated first to Simon in the cards of

Paul but Peter no no cregio in the resurrection

but he saw the Christ Resuscated the apostles not cregier

in Christ Resusit Jesus, but they've resuscited, or they've comeer on him. It's

in various occasions. Stubier with him, even they're like, for example, Tomas. This is

very relevant and very important, because if we we fundamentally our faith in the Resurrection of

Christ, that is the center and, and, In some way, the piece of our faith, believe that Jesus, de-verdad resuscitou,

not metaphorically, but really, because we do we're we? It's, because we're to the apostles, and specifically to Peter, because they're not

creviered, they were, they were, they were, they were they took them, they were, they were, and they all of their life, after the

death for him. Because that an individual would have been being a

person, but that all the apostles did their life for Christ, that

they were for firm with his blood, the testimony

of the resurrection of Christ, that that's all that

that for us, that fundamental. That is the rock over the that is edificated the church.

And that is represented primarily in Pedro, that represents to all the apostles. And so, until the day of today, the

church is the wayed by the successor of San Pedro, which is the Papa. And that

the long of the history, the successors of St. Peter are being

being being being present and that function apacient

to my corderoes apacient to his goder is the

obispo that the priest the all the apostles of the

world but also the obispo that has the last the

other the obo of Rome that that that

that that mission petrina is is that's of San Pedro, and that

still having the the the power of the power of and desat because

what the at the earth is at the sea, and what desata in the

earth is desat in the earth is the day of the Papa is who

see that that the petition that he did also

to when he said simon simon simon Satan has has had

been permission of sarandearte to you and your brothers, but you one of this leveled, of this scandal, of

this tribulation, you one of this up front of your brothers, is to say, confirm us in the faith, trails to return to the

way, to the truth, not permit you can be you are the person to continue to the family

unida. Even even it's after the second piece that

Peter arrasd the red with the pieces and even being

so 153 the red not the red not so

this is an image this this the fact that the red

not is a image that is the that is the red

that is the church with the people the that is that

that maintain that union for that the church not is a divider, not be

the pope. The Papa until the day of today has the function to maintain

unied to be a sign visible for that we all we know we know

we know where is the real church and for that we don't

we can we not we don't know the people that people that people who

do those people that do some way they're always suspecting

and critiquing to the pap and the church, but more being unid

to the successor of Peter, we're we're we're we're

we're we're we're unidous because it's who has the only

the only legitimate authority in the church the authority of Christ.

Pidamos to the Lord for the Papa and the mission and

p We need also to also, as we're also, as a same Peter, as seeing his example, a past of being

devils, we can't continue to Christ for that he could continue overing maravias in us,

forming grand santo in us at our devilities and pecanieses. Because Jesus, as as

as Peter also in us, of enormous potentialities, a grand future that we're not

we're not we're not able but that he want to realize in

us that the Lord you bendy and you keep

always you keep always