{"id":6884,"date":"2006-06-29T23:44:19","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T23:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/todays-homily-1.html"},"modified":"2006-06-29T23:44:19","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T23:44:19","slug":"todays-homily-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/todays-homily-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Today’s homily"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a translation (scroll down)<\/a><\/p>\n

And here’s a translation of the Angelus (yes, the Pope offered an address after the Angelus today, as he does on major feast days)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Today, we solemnly honor Saints Peter and Paul, \u201capostles of Christ, pillars and foundation of the city of God,\u201d as sung in today\u2019s liturgy . Their martyrdom was considered as the true and proper birth of the Church of Rome. <\/p>\n

The two Apostles rendered their supreme testimony for Christ not far apart in time and space: here in Rome, St. Peter was crucified, and shortly thereafter, St. Paul was beheaded. <\/p>\n

Their blood thus mingled together almost as a single witness for Christ, which impelled St. Irinaeus, Bishop of Lyons, in the middle of the second century, to speak of the \u201cChurch founded and constituted in Rome by the two most glorious apostles Peter and Paul (Against Heresy 3,3,2). <\/p>\n

A little time later, from northern Africa, Tertullian exclaimed: \u201cThis Church of Rome, how blessed it is! It was the Apostles themselves who, with their blood, poured forth all there was to know of the doctrine\u201c (The Prescription Against Hereticsm 36). <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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