Prosper Guéranger — on the Gospel of the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost (The Liturgical Year)

“But the bark of Peter was not to be long confined within Jewish waters. Insignificant as it seems to human views, the ship is now sailing on the high seas; it rides on the deep waters, which are, so St. John tells us, peoples and nations. The boisterous wind, the surging billows, the storm, no longer terrify the boatman of Lake Tiberias; for he knows that he has on board Him who is the master of the waves — Him, that is, who has given the deep as a garment to clothe the earth.”