By Mary Cuff, Crisis Magazine - The rooster proclaims another reality of Christ: this one tied to the rooster’s role in Peter’s denial. In the Exultet, the deacon proclaims the line, “O Happy Fault, that merited such and so great a redeemer!” The fault here is Adam’s, not Peter’s, but it attests to the reality that Christ transforms our fallenness. Perched faithfully upon the spire-cross of a church, the weathercock would announce to the parish that the deep shame of Peter’s failure is overcome by the deeper mercy of Christ.