2026 Lenten Retreat
TALK TEN
Holy Thursday, April 2, 2026
Appointed Archbishop of Dijon in 2022, Monsignor Antoine Hérouard is also First Vice-President of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) and Co-President of the European Commission for Justice and Peace. Having studied at the Pontifical French Seminary in Rome and the Gregorian, Bachelor of Philosophy (1981), Bachelor of Theology (1984), Archbishop Hérouard was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Paris in 1985. Post ordination he obtained the Canonical Licentiate in Moral Theology (1986) at the Gregorian. He has held numerous pastoral and national responsibilities, notably as Secretary General of the French Bishops’ Conference from 2005 to 2013, then as Rector of the Pontifical French Seminary in Rome before being appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Lille in 2017, he also served as Apostolic Delegate for the Shrine of Lourdes.
Peter’s Denial Luke 22:54-62 parallel John 21:15-19
Luke:
After arresting him they led him away and took him into the house of the high priest; Peter was following at a distance.
They lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat around it, and Peter sat down with them.
When a maid saw him seated in the light, she looked intently at him and said, “This man too was with him.”
But he denied it saying, “Woman, I do not know him.”
A short while later someone else saw him and said, “You too are one of them”; but Peter answered, “My friend, I am not.”
About an hour later, still another insisted, “Assuredly, this man too was with him, for he also is a Galilean.”
But Peter said, “My friend, I do not know what you are talking about.” Just as he was saying this, the cock crowed,
and the Lord turned and looked at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before the cock crows today, you will deny me three times.
He went out and began to weep bitterly.
John:
When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”
He said to him, “Feed my lambs.”
He then said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was distressed that he had said to him a third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” [Jesus] said to him, “Feed my sheep.
Amen, amen, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to dress yourself and go where you wanted; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.”
He said this signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. And when he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”
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