faithful might dwell together in the bond of one faith 66 ROMAN CATHOLICISM and charity. Whence, before he entered into his hatred are rising up on every side against the divinely Peter over the rest of the Apostles, he fixed in him the enduring principle of both kinds of unity and its closely united priesthood all believers might be pre- and the Father are one. visible foundation, on the strength of which the ever- sent by the Father, so he willed that to the end of Church. Moreover, in order that the episcopate itself laid foundation, to overthrow, if that were possible, might be one and undivided, and that by means of a And because the gates of hell with a daily increasing glory, he asked the Father, not for the Apostles only, E up to heaven. but also for those who should believe in him through lasting temple should be grounded, and the majesty of crease of the Catholic flock, with the approval of the the Church in the firmness of that faith should be lifted the world there should be pastors and teachers in his their preaching, that all might be one, as he the Son Then, as he sent the Apostles whom he had chosen to himself from the world, as he himself had been the Church, we, for the preservation, safety, and in- served in unity of faith and communion, setting bl