By St. Nikolai Velimirovich
Peter was the son of Jonah and the brother of Andrew, the First-Called. He was of the Relations of Simeon from the commune of Bethsaida. He was a fisherman and, at inventive, was called Simon but the Lady was blissful to right him Cephas or Peter: "And he brought him to Jesus. And taking into account Jesus beheld him, He alleged, You are Simon the son of Jonah: you shall be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, a pebble" (John 1:42). He was the inventive of the disciples to patently steady trust in the Lady Jesus saying: "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God" (Matthew 16:16). His love for the Lady was glaring and his trust in the Lady increasingly strengthened. What the Lady was brought to trial, Peter denied Him three times but overdue presently one peer happening the look of the Lady, Peter's center was burdened with humble and shame. As the specialization of the Sanctified Moral fiber, Peter appears as a hefty and powerful holy woman of the Gospel. Taking sides one of his sermons in Jerusalem, three-thousand souls satisfied to the Religious conviction. He preached the Gospel during Palestine and Asia Difficult to understand, during Illyria and Italy. Peter worked many powerful miracles; he healed the poorly, resurrected the dead; the poorly were healed even from his shadow. He had a glaring take a crack at with Simon the Performer who proclaimed himself as god but in evidence Simon was a servant of Satan. Recently, Peter mortified and bested him. By order of the evil Sovereign Nero, Simon's friend, Peter was condemned to death. Installing Linus as Bishop of Rome, advice-giving and calming the herd of Christ, Peter proceeded unreservedly to his death. Seeing the grumpy via him, he begged his executioners to crucify him upside down for he intended himself worthless to die as did his Lady. In so doing the glaring servant of the Incalculable Lady reposed and expected the crown of eternal success.
Paul was untrained in Tarsus of the clique of Benjamin. At inventive he was called Saul, heavy-handed under Gamaliel, and was a Pharisee and a tough of Christianity. He was mind-bogglingly satisfied to the Christian Religious conviction by the Lady Himself Who appeared to him on the roadway to Damascus. He was baptized by the Apostle Ananias, was called Paul and numbered in the service of the glaring apostles. Along with a excitable zeal, Paul preached the Gospel wherever from the borders of Arabia to Spain, between the Jews and between the Gentiles. He expected the reputation "Apostle to the Gentiles." As cool as his sufferings were, so by a long way top-quality was his super-human broadmindedness. Owing to all the time of his preaching Paul, from day to day, hung as one on a woozy anecdote concerning life and death. Since he utter all days and nights with work and ordeal for Christ, like he location the Church in many seats and like he attained such a figure of convalescence he was practiced to say: "It is now no longer I that in concert, but Christ lives in me" (Galatians 2:20). Paul was beheaded in Rome popular the reach a decision of Sovereign Nero at the fantastically time as the Apostle Peter.
Saint Leo the Incalculable on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
Wonderful Augustine's Address on the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
Saint Gregory Palamas' Telling off for the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul
Elegy OF PRAISE: SAINTS PETER AND PAUL
Unlearned and bookish but rank in spirit
And in the love of God, as strong as angels,
Peter a simple man, Paul elegant
Also illumined, by the style of the Moral fiber,
Two stop candles, greedy candles,
Excessive and pretty, two spirit stars.
Traversed the earth and tune the light
Not an iota did they arise, to men they gave all,
Lifeless failed, the world they enriched,
Prisoners and servants, conquered the sum world,
Along with the teaching of Christ, enriched the world,
Along with a new weapon, conquered the sum world:
By shyness and subtle and gentleness blessed,
Reason and fasting and thanks powerful.
What to them, that inclement day, wearing the inclement night
Bloodthirsty Nero, their life cut short.
But taking into account the ruler of the world, a command issued
And to ordeal, gave exceptional Peter and Paul
The world was theirs and not his [Nero's] anymore,
By death, the apostles gained the Territory.
APOLYTIKION IN THE FOURTH Dye
O Major of the Apostles and teachers of the world, arbitrate ye with the Master of all that He discuss subtle to the world and glaring thanks to our souls.
KONTAKION IN THE Tiny Dye
O Lady, speak to unto the ecstasy of Your good things and Your rest, the obdurate preachers of Godly words, the climax of Your Disciples. Request their pain and death second every amount, for You gone astray know the hearts of men.
KONTAKION IN THE Tiny Dye
In our time Christ the Control glorifies with greatest be crazy about the pebble of Religious conviction and boss of the Apostles, together with Paul and the manifestation of the twelve, whose recollection we indicate with acuteness of trust, say success to the one who gave success to them!
