Remember your own Galilee and walk towards it, for it is the “place” where you came to know Jesus personally, where he stopped being just another personage from a distant past, but a living person: not some distant God but the God who is at your side, who more than anyone else knows you and loves you.
Brother, sister, remember Galilee, your Galilee, and your call. Remember the Word of God who at a precise moment spoke directly to you. Remember that powerful experience of the Spirit; that great joy of forgiveness experienced after that one confession; that intense and unforgettable moment of prayer; that light that was kindled within you and changed your life; that encounter, that pilgrimage...
Each of us knows where our Galilee is located. Each of us knows the place of his or her interior resurrection, that beginning and foundation, the place where things changed. We cannot leave this in the past; the Risen Lord invites us to return there to celebrate Easter. Remember your Galilee. Remind yourself.
--Pope Francis
To hear Renaissance composer Jean Richafort’s beautiful 1510 motet, Quem dicunt hómines, which offers us Peter’s responses to Jesus’ questions, “Who do people say that I am?” and “Peter, do you love me?” as performed by the Ingenium Ensemble, click on the video below:
Image source: St. Peter Catholic Church, Huron, OH, https://www.stpetershuron.org/home-church
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