to a person who is maintaining the faith. In this passage the Spirit of God reveals the truth to Peter, who is in turn given by Christ the authority to establish and build a community, the Church, to maintain and live in that truth. Truth is not disincarnated. Rather, Truth is God the Son Incarnate, His very being, not mere propositions about Him. Truth can only be known in union with Him, and to be in union with Him is to be in the Church. As Saint Paul says, “the church of the living God [is] the