Tag: the feast of sts peter and paul

Just one more week of preparation!
We finally move home and relocate to a new Town over the mountains on 22 June – this move was delayed due to unforeseen circumstances – sign 😬😥.

The unpacking and organising will have to happen slowly for I long to be back with you all and “Breathing Catholic.” By the Grace of God I will return on the most glorious Feast of Sts Peter and Paul, 29 June.

“Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles
The joint commemoration of the Apostles, Sts Peter and Paul, is one of the most ancient customs of the Roman Church, attested already in the oldest surviving Roman Liturgical Calendar, the Depositio Martyrum, written in 336.
A verse of the Hymn, Apostolorum Passio, an authentic work of St Ambrose († 397) and still used in the Ambrosian Liturgy, says that “the thick crowds make their way through the circuit of so great a City; the Feast of the Sacred Martyrs, is celebrated on 3 streets.” These “three streets” are the via Cornelia, the main Street running up to and over the Vatican Hill; the Via Ostiensis, where the burial and Church of St Paul are and the Via Appia, on which resides the Cemetery “in Catacumbas.”