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Today is Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022.

Today is also the feast day of the chair of St. Peter.

Yes, there is a chair that has a feast day. Now, today we celebrate the very first Mass that Peter, our very first Pope, said in Rome. Now remember, Peter, of course, was born in Galilee. He was a fisherman. He was commissioned by Christ to be the leader of the church.

He traveled around. He preached in Jerusalem. Eventually, he felt called to go to Rome, and he felt

that Christ was telling him to found the church in Rome. So we celebrate the very first mass that he

said, and there was chair preserved in St. Peter's in Rome. So we celebrate the very first mass that he said, and there was a chair preserved in

St. Peter's in Rome that is said to have been the chair from which he presided over that very

first mass. And as you can probably guess, there wasn't a big cathedral built for him to say this mass. Oftentimes,

early Christians met in the catacombs, which were like places of burial beneath the city to say

mass or places outside of the city, remote places because, of course, they had to say mass in

secret. But today we celebrate to say mass in secret.

But today we celebrate the first mass in Rome,

which continues to be the center of our church,

where the Pope lives today.

Now, this week on Catholic Spouts,

we are talking about fasting in preparation for Lent.

Yesterday, we talked about how fasting is saying no or limiting some sort of sensory pleasure, usually food and drink or entertainment.

So the first reason why fasting is good, we talked about yesterday, and that's because

it reminds us of all of those people in the

world that do go to bed hungry. If we feel hunger, we can become more compassionate toward them

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