{"id":1945,"date":"2016-06-30T09:41:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T09:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:14:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:14:37","slug":"feast-of-sts-peter-and-paul-a-poem-by-st-pope-john-paul-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1945","title":{"rendered":"Feast of St.&#8217;s Peter and Paul; a poem by St. Pope John Paul II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d1ff58d0970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Peter feast day 6-30\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d1ff58d0970c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d1ff58d0970c-150wi\" style=\"width: 140px;\" title=\"Peter feast day 6-30\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A brief essay on the papacy &#8211; I am excerpting JP&#39;s poem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ethikapolitika.org\/2016\/06\/29\/peter-you-are-the-floor\/?utm_source=Peter%2C%20You%20Are%20the%20Floor%3B%20Give%20Thanks&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MailChimp\">Peter, You Are the Floor; Give Thanks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the Second Vatican Council, Karol Wojtyla wrote a&#0160;short poem about St. Peter, whose feast we celebrate today.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Our feet meet the earth in this place;<br \/> there are so many walls, so many colonnades,<br \/> yet we are not lost. &#0160;If we find<br \/> meaning and oneness,<br \/> it is the floor that guides us. &#0160;It joins the spaces<br \/> of this great edifice, and joins<br \/> the spaces within us,<br \/> who walk aware of our weakness and defeat.<br \/> Peter, you are the floor, that others<br \/> may walk over you (not knowing<br \/> where they go). &#0160;You guide their steps<br \/> so that spaces can be one in their eyes,<br \/> and from them thought is born.<br \/> You want to serve their feet that pass<br \/> as rock serves the hooves of sheep.<br \/> The rock is a gigantic temple floor,<br \/> the cross a pasture.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief essay on the papacy &#8211; I am excerpting JP&#39;s poem. Peter, You Are the Floor; Give Thanks During the Second Vatican Council, Karol Wojtyla wrote a&#0160;short poem about St. Peter, whose feast we celebrate today. Our feet meet the earth in this place; there are so many walls, so many colonnades, yet we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6501,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions\/6501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}