JESUS CHRIST AND PETER

photo - St. Peter Cathedral collection

s you continue to look toward the front, your eye is drawn to the mural at the back of the sanctuary.  In the center, Jesus Christ offers the keys of heaven to St. Peter. The crossed keys each contain a symbol. One key has a cross and the other key has a three-pronged staff. The keys entrust a specific authority to St. Peter: "I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven.  Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." Matthew 16:18-19