[Rank]
Quinta die infra Octavam Ss. Petri and Pauli.;;Semiduplex;;2;;vide C1

[Rule]
vide C1;
9 lectiones

[Ant 2]
These are glorious princes * over all the earth, they loved one another in their lives, and in their death they were not divided.

[Ant 1]
Apostle Peter * and Paul Doctor of Gentiles, they taught us to your Law O Lord

[Versum 1]
V. Thou shalt make them princes over all the earth
R. They shall remember thy name, O Lord

[Oratio]
O God, Who didst hallow this day by the Testifying of thine Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, grant unto thy Church, whose foundations Thou wast pleased to lay by their hands, the grace always in all things to remain faithful to their teaching.
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[Lectio4]
From the Sermons of Pope St. Leo the Great.
!1st for the Birth-day of SS. Peter and Paul.
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His Saints and no cruelty can trample out that Religion which was founded in the mysterious Sacrifice of the Cross of Christ. Under persecution the Church waneth not, but waxeth. And the Lord's field is ever clothed with a nobler harvest, when the grains of His wheat abide not alone, but fall into the ground, and die, and bring forth fruit manifold, (John xii. 24.) What an increase hath sprung up from these two glorious grains of God's seed, is witnessed by the thousands of blessed martyrs who have rivalled the triumph of the Apostles, who gird this our city with their red and world famous armies, and have set upon her head a crown of many kingly jewels.

[Lectio5]
Up their united succour, dearly beloved brethren, which hath been given unto us by God as an example of patience and a confirmation of faith, will be the cause of our joy on the days of the commemoration of all the Saints, but amid all their glory, doth excel in glory the glory of their spiritual fathers, whom the grace of God exalted to such a pitch of eminence among all the members of the Church, that they seem as it were the two eyes of that body whereof Christ is the Head. The worthy deed and loyal courage of either of them are such as to baffle all power of man's speech worthily to express the same, nor need we draw any distinction between them. In their election they were peers, in their work fellows, and in their end equals.

[Lectio6]
But, as our own experience hath taught us, and that of our forefathers hath proved, we believe and trust that, amid all the toils whereby in this life we strive towards the obtaining of God's mercy, we shall ever be holpen by the prayers of these our special Patrons, and that when our own sins thrust us down, the good deeds of the Apostles may pull us up. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Who, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, hath but one power, as He hath one Divine nature, for ever and ever. Amen.