[Rank]
ln Octavam Ss. Petri and Pauli.;;Duplex;;3;;vide C1

[Rule]
vide C1;
9 lectiones

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

[Ant 1]
Apostle Peter * and Paul Doctor of Gentiles, they taught us to your Law 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.
$Per Dominum

[Lectio3]
!1 Cor 4:10-21
10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honourable, but we without honour.
11 Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no fixed abode;
12 And we labour, working with our own hands: we are reviled, and we bless; we are persecuted, and we suffer it.
13 We are blasphemed, and we entreat; we are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all even until now.
14 I write not these things to confound you; but I admonish you as my dearest children.
15 For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you.
16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ. 
17 For this cause have I sent to you Timothy, who is my dearest son and faithful in the Lord; who will put you in mind of my ways, which are in Christ Jesus; as I teach everywhere in every church. 
18 As if I would not come to you, so some are puffed up. 
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will: and will know, not the speech of them that are puffed up, but the power. 
20 For the kingdom of God is not in speech, but in power.
21 What will you? shall I come to you with a rod; or in charity, and in the spirit of meekness? 

[Lectio4]
From the Sermons of St. John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople.
!In the Metaphrastes.
The blessed Apostles, who have toiled so much for us, what thanks shall we give you When I remember thee, O Peter, I am lost in amazement Paul, when I think of thee, my heart overwhelmeth me, and I weep. When I look at your sufferings I know not what to say or what to speak. How many prisons have ye made holy How many fetters have ye made honourable? How many torments have ye endured How many reproaches have ye borne How have ye carried Christ How have ye made the Churches glad by your preaching? Verily, your tongues were blessed instruments it was for the Church's sake that your limbs were bloody. Ye have been made in all things followers of Christ. Your sound is gone out through all the earth, and your words to the ends of the world. (Ps. xviii. 4.)

[Lectio5]
Rejoice, O Peter, who hast been gladdened by the wood of the Cross of. Christ., It was. a showing forth of thy Teacher that thou didst will to be crucified, not like the Lord Christ, standing upright, but with thine head toward the earth, as one that made a way from earth to heaven. Blessed are the nails which pierced thine holy, limbs. With sure and certain hope didst thou commend thy spirit into the hands of the Lord, thou who hadst been a faithful servant to Him and to His Bride the Church, thou who in thy warm heart hadst loved the Lord more loyally than all the Apostles.

[Lectio6]
Rejoice thou also, O blessed Paul, whose head was cut off by the sword, thou whose fearless devotion no words can express. What sword was that which divided thine holy neck, that instrument of the Lord's work, worthy that heaven should wonder at it, and earth worship it What place was that which drank in thy blood, that appeared like drops of milk upon the raiment of him who smote thee, and made the savage and his comrades to become strangely gentle and faithful Would that I could have that sword for a crown, and the nails of Peter set therein as the jewels of the diadem.

[Lectio7]
From the Holy Gospel according to Matthew
!Matt 14:22-23
At that time Jesus constrained His disciples to get into a ship, and to go before Him unto the other side, while He sent the multitudes away. And so on.
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Homily by St. Jerome, Priest at Bethlehem.
!Bk. ii. Comm. on Matth. xiv.
The Lord commanded His disciples to cross over to the other side, and constrained them to get into a ship. By these expressions we perceive that they were unwilling to leave the Lord, the love of their Teacher making them desire not to lose a moment of His company. And when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up into a mountain apart to pray. Perchance, if Peter, and James, and John, who had seen Him in the glory of the Transfiguration, had been with Him, they would have gone up into the mountain with Him, but the common herd could not follow Him, save when He taught them on the sea shore, or fed them in the wilderness.

[Lectio8]
He went up into a mountain apart to pray, not as He Who, with five loaves and two fishes, had satisfied about five thousand men, besides women and children, but as He, Who when He heard of the death of John, departed into a desert place apart (vv. 12-21.) Not that we make two Persons in the Lord but some of His works He did as God, and some as man. But the ship was now in the midst of the sea, tossed with waves. The Apostles were right to be slow and unwilling to leave the Lord, for, when He was not with them, they were in peril of shipwreck.

[Lectio9]
Thilst the Lord abode alone upon the top of the mountain, a contrary wind arose, and the sea raged, and the Apostles were endangered and yet the threatening shipwreck held off until Jesus came. And in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea. The watches of soldiers are divided into three. When therefore it is said that the Lord came unto them in the fourth watch, it appeareth that they had been in peril all night, and that it was at the end of the night, as it will again be at the end of the world, that He came to the rescue of His disciples.

[Versum 2]
V. Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth:
R. And their words unto the ends of the world.

[Ant 2]
Glorious princes * of the Earth, as in this life you were honored together, you are not separated by death

[Versum 3]
V. Thou shalt make them princes over all the earth
R. They shall remember thy name, O Lord

[Ant 3]
Apostle Peter * and Paul Doctor of Gentiles, they taught us to your Law O Lord