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Friday March 29^th, Luke 22: ⁵⁹ About an hour later, someone else spoke up, really adamant: "He's got to have been with him! He's got "Galilean' written all over him."⁶⁰ Peter said, "Man, I don't know what you're talking about." At that very moment, the last word hardly off his lips, a rooster crowed. ^{6 1}Just then, the Master turned and looked at Peter. Peter remembered what the Master had said to him: "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." ⁶² He went out and cried and cried and cried. At the church in Jerusalem where this supposedly took place, there is a weather vane on the top of the church in the shape of a rooster.  For all of us it is a reminder of been there, done that!!!  Time and again, in one way or another we have all been there and done that.  For us there is forgiveness and a call to be the church out in the world once again. For us there are fresh starts and the call to offer these fresh starts to others.  Later we are reminded that Jesus restores Peter by asking him to “feed my sheep” three times.  In the midst of our doubts, in the midst of our fear, Jesus restores us and calls upon us to “feed my sheep.”  It is what the church does; it is what you and I as the church are called to do.