and Andrew

18 Jun

Standing at these ruins in Capernaeum, every time I heard a guide explain that this is the “house of St. Peter,” I wanted to add, “. and Andrew.” We are actually looking at the ruins of a 5th century octagonal church over the spot believed to be the house of the Peter (and Andrew). The Christian community of Capernaeum paid special attention to a square room among the ancient rocks, and commemorated the spot by building worship spaces over it. Listen to what we read in Mark 1:39 — “On leaving the synagogue he entered the house of Peter AND ANDREW with James and John.”

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: