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Our Morning Offering – 2 July – Apostolorum Passio

Our Morning Offering – 2 July – The Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles and Martyrs Apostolorum PassioBy St Ambrose (c 340-397)Father and Doctor of the Church This happy day is sanctifiedAs Martyr’s glory we recall,The cross bedewed with Peter’s blood,The sword that won a crown for Paul. The triumph of their MartyrdomUnited these great souls in death,Whose faith in Christ had crowned…

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A Blessed and Holy Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, the Pillars of the Church!

These are the ones who, living in the flesh, planted the Church with their blood;  they drank the chalice of the Lord and became the friends of God.

O God, who on the Solemnity of the Apostles Peter and Paul give us the noble and joy of this day, grant we pray, that your Church may in all things follow the teaching of those through whom she received the beginnings of right religion.

Veneration of the two great Apostles, Peter and Paul, has its roots in the very foundations of the Church.   They are the solid rock on which the Church is built.   They are at the origin of her faith and will forever remain her protectors and her guides.   To them, Rome owes her true greatness, for it was under God’s providential guidance that they were led to make the capital of the Empire, sanctified by their Martyrdom, the centre of the Christian world whence should radiate the preaching of the Gospel.

St Peter suffered Martyrdom under Nero, in 66 or 67.   He was buried on the hill of the Vatican where recent excavations have revealed his tomb on the very site of the Basilica of St Peter’s.   St Paul was beheaded in the Via Ostia on the spot where now stands the Basilica bearing his name.   Down the centuries, Christian people in their thousands have gone on pilgrimage to the tombs of these Apostles.   In the second and third centuries the Roman Church already stood pre-eminent by reason of her apostolicity, the infallible truth of her teaching and her two great figures, Sts Peter and Paul.

A partial indulgence may be gained today by anyone who makes devout use of a religious article blessed by any priest but “if the article of devotion has been blessed by the Sovereign Pontiff or by any Bishop, the faithful, using it, can also gain a plenary indulgence, provided they also make a profession of faith (e.g. the Apostles Creed), as long as the usual conditions are satisfied.”

“There is one day for the passion of two apostles. But these two also were as one; although they suffered on different days, they were as one. Peter went first, Paul followed. We are celebrating a feast day, consecrated for us by the blood of the apostles. Let us love their faith, their lives, their labours, their sufferings, their confession of faith, their preaching.”

St Augustine (354-430) Father & Doctor of the Church

A Blessed and Holy Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, the Pillars of the Church! A Blessed and Holy Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, the Pillars of the Church! These are the ones who, living in the flesh, planted the Church with their blood;  they drank the chalice of the Lord and became the friends of God.

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Our Morning Offering – 29 June – The Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul

What Fairer Light?

Hymn for the Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul Elphis, c 493, wife of Boethius c 477– 524 Translation: R A Knox, 1888-1957

What fairer light is this than time itself doth own, The golden day with beams more radiant brightening? The princes of God’s Church this feast day doth enthrone, To sinners heavenward bound their burden lightening.

One taught mankind its creed, one guards the heavenly gate, Founders of Rome, they bind the world in loyalty; One by the sword achieved, one by the cross his fate; With laurelled brows they hold eternal royalty.

Rejoice, O Rome, this day, thy walls they once did sign With princely blood, who now their glory share with thee. What city’s vesture glows with crimson deep as thine? What beauty else has earth that may compare with thee?

To God the three in one eternal homage be, All honour, all renown, all songs victorious, Who rules both heaven and earth by one divine decree To everlasting years in empire glorious.

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Blessed and Holy Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul – 29 June – Today we celebrate St Peter and Paul as co-founders of the Church.   St Peter is also celebrated on 22 February (feast of the Chair of Peter, emblematic of the world unity of the Church), 1 August (Saint Peter in Chains) and 18 November (feast of the dedication of the Basilicas of Peter and Paul). St Paul is also celebrated on 25 January – his conversion and 16 February (Saint Paul Shipwrecked).

St Peter Patronages:  Universal Church, against fever, against foot problems, against frenzy, bakers, bridge builders, butchers, clock makers, cobblers, shoe makers, fishermen, harvesters, locksmiths, longevity, net makers, papacy, popes, ship builders, shipwrights, stone masons, watch makers, Isle of Guernsey, Exeter College, Oxford, England, 17 dioceses, 46 cities, 3 abbeys

St Paul Patronages:  against hailstorms, against snake bites, against snakes, Catholic Action, Cursillo movement, lay people, authors, writers, evangelists, journalists, reporters, missionary bishops, musicians, newspaper editorial staff, public relations personnel and work, publishers, rope braiders and makers, saddle makers; saddlers, tent makers, Malta, Bath Abbey, England, 16 dioceses, 28 cities,

SOLEMNITY OF STS PETER AND PAUL

HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI

St Peter’s Basilica Wednesday, 29 June 2005 (read on Breathing Catholic)

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Reflection on Saints Peter and Paul: Pillars of the Church -  Blessed and Holy Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul – 29 June

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One Minute Reflection – 29 June

“Their sound has gone out into all the earth and their words to the ends of the world”……….Psalm 19

REFLECTION – “There is one day for the passion of two apostles. But these two also were as one; although they suffered on different days, they were as one. Peter went first, Paul followed. We are celebrating a feast day, consecrated for us by the blood of the apostles. Let us love their faith, their lives, their labours, their sufferings, their confession of faith, their preaching.”………St Augustine

PRAYER – Almighty God, whose blessed Apostles Peter and Paul glorified you by their martyrdom: grant that your Church, instructed by their teaching and example and knit together in unity by your Spirit, may ever stand firm upon the one foundation, which is Jesus Christ our Lord;  who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Sts Peter and Paul, pray for us and for the universal Church, amen.

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Thought for the Day – 29 June – St Peter, Prince of the Apostles / St Paul, Apostle to the Gentiles

Thought for the Day – 29 June – Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971) St Peter, Prince of the ApostlesSt Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles “It is good to admire the fidelity of St Peter and the designs of Divine Providence in making him the visible Head of the Church but, it is far better, to follow his example.His love for Jesus, led him to leave his family and his fisherman’s…

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