Where is Peter?

In the dispensation of the fulness of times, to re-establish all things in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth, in him.
 -- Epistle Of Saint Paul To The Ephesians Ch 1:10

When Christ was crucified on Mt. Calvary, the Church lived through its darkest time. It seemed like the end of the world. But we know how the story ends.

[14] At length he appeared to the eleven as they were at table: and he upbraided them with their incredulity and hardness of heart, because they did not believe them who had seen him after he was risen again. [15] And he said to them: Go ye into the whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

[16] He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be condemned. [17] And these signs shall follow them that believe: In my name they shall cast out devils: they shall speak with new tongues. [18] They shall take up serpents; and if they shall drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them: they shall lay their hands upon the sick, and they shall recover. [19] And the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God. [20] But they going forth preached everywhere: the Lord working withal, and confirming the word with signs that followed.
 -- Gospel According to Saint Mark 16:14-20

But for a short time in the beginning, the Church was without a head. Simon Peter, the rock, was nowhere to be found.

At the foot of the Cross was Mary, the Immaculate Virgin. And Christ entrusted his beloved disciple John into her care.

And so today Peter is nowhere to be found and we must turn to Mary.

Next Thursday we celebrate the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The following Thursday we dedicate to the Our Lady, Queen of the World.

Now more than ever we must turn to Our Lady and she will guide us through this storm.

Through her intercession we will cast out the devils from the Church. And we shall speak the Truth with new tongues. We will defeat the serpents which have nearly conquered the world. And even when we drink the poison of this blasphemous culture it shall not harm us. And we will lay our hands upon our spiritually sick brethren and they shall recover.

And we will once again go forth and preach the Gospel everywhere which will be confirmed with signs.

And seeing these signs Peter will regain his faith and once again feed the Lord's sheep and lambs.

Pope St. Pius X

The papal motto of Pius X was Instaurare Omnia in Christo, or "to restore all things in Christ."

We must therefore seek not to "reform" the Church. Our mission must be to restore the Church.

The following is from the first encyclical of Pope Pius X in 1903 which was titled "ON THE RESTORATION OF ALL THINGS IN CHRIST".

4. We are resolved to spend all Our strength and Our very life. Hence, should anyone ask Us for a symbol as the expression of Our will, We will give this and no other: "To renew all things in Christ." In undertaking this glorious task, We are greatly quickened by the certainty that We shall have all of you, Venerable Brethren, as generous co-operators. Did We doubt it We should have to regard you, unjustly, as either unconscious or heedless of that sacrilegious war which is now, almost everywhere, stirred up and fomented against God. For in truth, "The nations have raged and the peoples imagined vain things" (Ps. ii., 1.) against their Creator, so frequent is the cry of the enemies of God: "Depart from us" (Job. xxi., 14). And as might be expected we find extinguished among the majority of men all respect for the Eternal God, and no regard paid in the manifestations of public and private life to the Supreme Will -- nay, every effort and every artifice is used to destroy utterly the memory and the knowledge of God.

5. When all this is considered there is good reason to fear lest this great perversity may be as it were a foretaste, and perhaps the beginning of those evils which are reserved for the last days; and that there may be already in the world the "Son of Perdition" of whom the Apostle speaks (II. Thess. ii., 3). Such, in truth, is the audacity and the wrath employed everywhere in persecuting religion, in combating the dogmas of the faith, in brazen effort to uproot and destroy all relations between man and the Divinity! While, on the other hand, and this according to the same apostle is the distinguishing mark of Antichrist, man has with infinite temerity put himself in the place of God, raising himself above all that is called God; in such wise that although he cannot utterly extinguish in himself all knowledge of God, he has contemned God's majesty and, as it were, made of the universe a temple wherein he himself is to be adored. "He sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself as if he were God" (II. Thess. ii., 2).

6. Verily no one of sound mind can doubt the issue of this contest between man and the Most High. Man, abusing his liberty, can violate the right and the majesty of the Creator of the Universe; but the victory will ever be with God -- nay, defeat is at hand at the moment when man, under the delusion of his triumph, rises up with most audacity. Of this we are assured in the holy books by God Himself. Unmindful, as it were, of His strength and greatness, He "overlooks the sins of men" (Wisd. xi., 24), but swiftly, after these apparent retreats, "awaked like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine" (Ps. Ixxvii., 65), "He shall break the heads of his enemies" (Ps. Ixvii., 22), that all may know "that God is the king of all the earth" (Ib. Ixvi., 8), "that the Gentiles may know themselves to be men' (Ib. ix., 20).

7. All this, Venerable Brethren, We believe and expect with unshakable faith. But this does not prevent us also, according to the measure given to each, from exerting ourselves to hasten the work of God -- and not merely by praying assiduously: "Arise, O Lord, let not man be strengthened" (Ib. ix., 19), but, more important still, by affirming both by word and deed and in the light of day, God's supreme dominion over man and all things, so that His right to command and His authority may be fully realized and respected. This is imposed upon us not only as a natural duty, but by our common interest.