The date of Archbishop Eduard Profittlich’s beatification is approaching. Literary scholar and cultural semiotician Mihhail Lotman asks in his essay what this means and why it is important.
…And then our Redeemer turned to Simon for the third time, with the same question: «Simon, son of John, do you love me?» And when he answered affirmatively for the third time, Jesus commanded for the third time: «Feed my sheep!»
(cf. Jn 21:15–17)