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Sister Alicia Torres is a member of the Franciscans of the Eucharist of Chicago, and serves at the Mission of Our Lady of the Angels on Chicago’s West Side. She is a guest columnist for the Catholic News Service column “In Light of Faith.” (CNS photo/courtesy Loyola University Chicago)

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MEMORIAL OF SAINTS CORNELIUS AND CYPRIAN: If anyone would consider and examine my words, he would not need the treatment of an argument at length. The method of proof for faith is easy to handle on account of a short-cut to what is the fact. The Lord speaks to Peter: "I tell you that you are Peter, and on that rock I will build my Church, and the gates of the underworld will not prevail against her." On one man he builds his Church, and although he assigns to all the apostles after the Resurrection equal power with the words, "Just as the Father sends me, also I send you. Receive the Holy Spirit;" nevertheless, in order that he might reveal their unity, he ordained by his own authority that the source of that same unity should begin from the one who began the series. The remaining apostles were necessarily also that which Peter was, but the starting point from which they begin is from their unity with him in order that the Church of Christ might be exemplified as one.Can anyone believe that he himself sticks fast to the faith without sticking fast to this unity of the Church? Can someone be confident that he himself is in the Church if he offers resistance to the Church and opposes her?-- Saint Cyprian ... See MoreSee Less

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