One Minute Reflection – 18 November – The Feast of the Dediciation of the Basilicas of Sts Peter and Paul
To you all, God’s beloved in Rome, called to be his holy people…..Romans 1:7
REFLECTION – “The present feast therefore deserves to be more than a local solemnity; its extension to the Universal Church is a subject for the world’s gratitude. Thanks to this Feast we can all make together in spirit today the pilgrimage, which our ancestors performed with such fatigue and danger, yet never thought they purchased at too high a price its holy joys and blessings. “Heavenly mountains, glittering heights of the new Sion!” There are the gates of our true country, the two lights of the immense world. There Paul’s voice is heard like thunder; there Peter withholds or hurls the bolt. The former opens the hearts of men, the latter opens Heaven. Peter is the foundation-stone, Paul the architect of the temple where stands the altar by which God is propitiated. Both together from a single fountain, which pours out its healing and refreshing waters” …Bishop Venantius Fortunatus (c 530 – c 609).
PRAYER – Lord God, give Your Church the help of the Apostles Peter and Paul, who first brought it the knowledge of the faith; may they always obtain for it an increase of grace and continue to run with us on our journey home to You. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, in union with the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever, amen.
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