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 From today's Gospel passage, as in many other texts of the New Testament (Mt  10:2; Lk 22:32, Jn 21:15-17), it is clear that Peter is entrusted with a particular task in  the church. It is he who always appears first, is called to feed the lambs and the sheep  and sustains his brothers and sisters in the faith. The exercise of this ministry  is to be matched all the time with the gospel so that the bishop of Rome really is for  all—according to the wonderful definition of Irenaeus of Lyons (II century)—“he who  presides over charity”.