But we do not keep a memento of a person, no matter how dear, who is bodily present. It is only when the friend is really departing that he leaves a memorial. Jesus, in John (xiv. 2, 3), says, “I go to prepare a place for you. I will come again, and will take you to myself, that where I am, you also may be.” Why did not Christ say, “Do not be troubled. I am leaving myself in the Eucharist. You can handle me, feed on me. I shall be a thousand times more intimately connected with you than ever before.” He says nothing of the kind, however. Nor does St. Peter in his famous sermon (Acts iii. 20) at Solomon’s porch; but he says, “When the times of refreshment shall come, He shall send Jesus Christ, whom heaven indeed must receive until the times of the restitution of all things.” 4. I should be sorry to weary you, and so the last point I shall discuss here is the alleged primacy of jurisdiction given by Christ to St. Peter, and through him to the Pope. The chief text upon which the Roman Catholic Church relies in this matter is Matt. xvi. 18—“And I say to thee, That thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” In a note in the Douay Testament we are told that Christ’s words were the same as if He said in English, “Thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my Church.” But it is very remarkable that the Evangelist uses the word Petros for Peter, and Petra for the rock. Now Petros means a stone, while Petra means a rock; so that the words of Christ would really signify “thou art a stone, and upon this rock I will build my Church.” If Christ intended to found His Church upon Peter, He surely would have said, “Thou art Peter, and upon _thee_ I will build my Church.” But He really does say, thou art Peter (that is a stone), and upon this rock (Petra) I will build my Church. Peter certainly was a stone in the edifice equally with the other Apostles, for St. John in the Apocalypse (xxi. 14) tells us that the wall of the new Jerusalem “had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.” St. Augustine distinctly states that Christ is the rock—“Because I am Petra, a rock, thou art Petrus, Peter; for Petra, the rock, is not from Petrus, Peter; but Petrus, Peter, is from Petra the rock. And upon this rock I will build my Church; not upon Peter, whom thou art, but upon the rock whom thou hast confessed” (tom, v., 1097). St. Jerome holds the same opinion. But the Church of Rome says Christ gave Peter the keys (Matt. xvi. 19). No doubt; and Peter admitted the Jews by the doors of the Church (Acts ii. 41), and afterwards the Gentiles (Acts x.). He also gave him power to bind and loose, and bestowed exactly the same power on the other Apostles (Matt. xviii. 18). But even if Christ had conferred upon Peter this extraordinary power, it would not follow that it has been transmitted to the Pope. They tell us that St.