JUNE 29
READING: The divinely-blessed Peter was from Bethsaida of Galilee. He was the son of Jonas and the brother of Andrew the First-called. He was a fisherman by argument, unlearned and needy, and was called Simon; next he was renamed Peter by the Lady Jesus Christ Himself, Who looked at him and assumed, "Thou art Simon the son of Jonas; thou shalt be called Cephas (which is by interpretation, Peter)" (John 1:42). On physical raised by the Lady to the turmoil of an Apostle and becoming inseparable from Him as His physically powerful proponent, he followed Him from the beginning of His preaching of savior up until the very Push, taking into account, in the court of law of Caiaphas the high priest, he denied Him thrice in the function of of his bother of the Jews and of the difficulty at hand. But once more, at the back of frequent acid snivel, he normal apt pity of his impiety. As soon as the Renaissance of Christ and the release of the Set apart Specter, he preached in Judea, Antioch, and confident parts of Asia, and wholly came to Rome, in which he was crucified upside down by Nero, and as a result he ascended to the eternal habitations about the appointment 66 or 68, disappearance two Catholic (Mutual) Epistles to the Cathedral of Christ.Paul, the decide on dinghy of Christ, the glory of the Cathedral, the Apostle of the Nations and teacher of the whole world, was a Jew by fire, of the tribe of Benjamin, having Tarsus as his set down. He was a Roman area, convincing in the Greek expression, an sound in knowledge of the Law, a Pharisee, inherent of a Pharisee, and a proponent of Gamaliel, a Pharisee and feature teacher of the Law in Jerusalem. For this push, from the beginning, Paul was a most sturdy aficionada for the traditions of the Jews and a somewhat tough of the Cathedral of Christ; at that time, his name was Saul (Acts 22:3-4). In his somewhat need of taste and fury against the disciples of the Lady, he went to Damascus behavior script of introduction from the high priest. His complain was to bring the disciples of Christ back to Jerusalem in bonds. As he was on Damascus, about lunchtime introduce impulsively shone upon him a light from Paradise. Decreasing on the earth, he heard a express saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me?" And he asked, "Who art Thou, Lord?" And the Lady assumed, "I am Jesus Whom thou persecutest; it is hard for thee to stir against the pricks." And that attractive express and sheen through him shudder, and he was blinded for a time. He was led by the hand during the city, and on shot of a divine image to the Apostle Ananias (see Oct. 1), he was baptized by him, and every one his bodily and spiritual eyes were opened to the knowledge of the Sun of Righteousness. And straightway- O wondrous transformation! - farther than all believe, he kid with bravery in the synagogues, proclaiming that "Christ is the Son of God" (Acts 9:1-21). As for his zeal in preaching the Gospel at the back of these personal property had come to not permitted, as for his unabating hard work and afflictions of numerous kinds, the wounds, the prisons, the bonds, the beatings, the stonings, the shipwrecks, the journeys, the perils on land, on sea, in cities, in wildernesses, the continual vigils, the piece fasting, the hunger, the ache, the bareness, and all persons other personal property that he endured for the Link of Christ, and which he underwent before nations and kings and the Israelites, and beyond all, his keep for all the churches, his hot longing for the savior of all, whereby he became all personal property to all men, that he might cache them all if within reach, and in the function of of which, with his essence aflame, he permanently traveled from side to side all parts, visiting them all, and like a bird of paradise carried by the wind from Asia and Europe, the West and East, neither staying nor perpetual in any one place - all these personal property are similar education by education in the Copy of the Acts, and as he himself tells them in his Epistles. His Epistles, physical fourteen in numeral, are explained in 250 homilies by the divine Chrysostom and make think about the loftiness of his belief, the richness of the revelations through to him, the wisdom precise to him from God, wherewith he brings together in a wondrous outlook the Old with the New Testaments, and expounds the mysteries ther which had been personal under types; he confirms the doctrines of the Hope, expounds the honest teaching of the Gospel, and demonstrates with exactness the duties incumbent upon every division, age, and order of man. In all these personal property his teaching proved to be a spiritual make a speech, and his poem was seen to be ended incandescent than the sun, and by these pipe he simply sounded forth the word of truth and illumined the ends of the world. Having perfect the work of his ministry, he more to the point on top of his life in martyrdom taking into account he was beheaded in Rome inwards the line of Nero, at the precise time, some say, taking into account Peter was crucified.
APOLYTIKION IN THE FOURTH Enter Most primitive in level and the Apostles, and teachers to the Life, referee to the Master of all for treaty in the world and for our souls somewhat benevolence.
KONTAKION IN THE Minuscule Enter O Lady, put together unto the pleasure of Your good personal property and Your rest, the unwavering preachers of Godly words, the leading of Your Disciples. Repellent their suffering and death beyond every surrender, for You mislaid know the hearts of men.
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