Tuesday of Holy Week

 Roosters and St. Peter Jn. 13:36-38

Roosters announce things

They announce the dawn. 

They announce when the fox is in the hen house. 

Peter was a kind of rooster. 

Always speaking up first. 

Announcing things;

From the empty boat, Peter said;

“We have toiled all night but took nothing in,

But at Your word we will lower the nets.”

Then when the boat was overflowing with fish,

“Depart from me Lord, for I am a sinful man.”

At Caesarea Philippi,

“You are the Christ, the Son of God!”

Immediately followed by,

“God forbid Lord, that you should suffer and die.”

At Capernaum after the discourse on the Bread of Life,

“Lord to Whom shall we go?  You have the words of everlasting life.”

On the stormy sea,

“”Lord bid me to come to You on the water.”

On Mount Tabor he said,

“Lord it is good to be here, let us build three tents.”

In the Upper Room at the Last Supper,

“Lord you shall never wash my feet.”

And later that same night,

“Lord I am willing to go to prison and to death for you.”

But how quickly Peter changed his tune when questioned 

while standing around the fire at the High Priest house;

Three times he crowed,

“I do not know him!”