Duc in altum! “Put out into the deep!”
These
are the words of Christ to Simon Peter, commanding him to lower his
nets into the sea. Peter did as the Lord told him, but not before
expressing doubts, for he and his companions had been fishing all that
night, without success. But, when Peter and his companions hauled up
their nets, the nets began to break, so great was the catch of fish.
Astonished at the miracle, St. Peter cast himself at the feet of the
Lord: “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!”
These
are also the words that Pope St. John Paul II chose to begin and end
his apostolic letter Novo Millenio Ineunte, in which he celebrated the
dawn of the third millennium by urging Christians to renew their
commitment to the Gospel...
