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TWENTY-NINTH OF JUNE

SOLEMNITY OF SAINTS PETER & PAUL

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ENTRANCE ANTIPHON

LATIN

Isti sunt qui, viventes in carne,

plantaverunt Ecclesiam sanguine suo:

calicem Domini biberunt,

et amici Dei facti sunt.

ENGLISH

These are the ones who,

living in the flesh,

planted the Church with their blood;

they drank the chalice of the Lord

and became the friends of God.

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GLORIA

LATIN

Gloria in excelsis Deo

et in terra pax hominibus bonæ voluntatis.

Laudamus te,

benedicimus te,

adoramus te,

glorificamus te,

gratias agimus tibi propter

magnam gloriam tuam,

Domine Deus,

Rex cælestis,

Deus Pater omnipotens.

Domine Fili Unigenite,

Iesu Christe,

Domine Deus,

Agnus Dei,

Filius Patris,

qui tollis peccata mundi,

miserere nobis,

qui tollis peccata mundi,

suscipe deprecationem nostram.

Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris,

miserere nobis.

Quoniam tu solus Sanctus,

tu solus Dominus,

tu solus Altissimus,

Iesu Christe,

cum Sancto Spiritu:

in gloria Dei Patris.

Amen.

ENGLISH

Glory to God in the highest,

and on earth peace to people of good will.

We praise you,

we bless you,

we adore you,

we glorify you,

we give you thanks for your great glory,

Lord God, heavenly King,

O God, almighty Father,

Lord Jesus Christ,

Only Begotten Son,

Lord God,

Lamb of God,

Son of the Father,

you take away the sins of the world,

have mercy on us,

you take away the sins of the world,

receive our prayer;

you are seated at the right hand of the Father,

have mercy on us.

For you alone are the Holy One,

you alone are the Lord,

you alone are the Most High,

Jesus Christ,

with the Holy Spirit,

in the glory of God the Father.

Amen.

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COLLECT

LATIN

Deus, qui huius diei venerandam

sanctamque lætitiam

in apostolorum Petri et Pauli

sollemnitate tribuisti,

da Ecclesiæ tuæ eorum

in omnibus sequi præceptum,

per quos religionis sumpsit exordium.

Per Dominum nostrum Iesum Christum

Filium tuum,

qui tecum vivit et regnat

in unitate Spiritus Sancti,

Deus,

per omnia sæcula sæculorum.

R.) Amen.

ENGLISH

O God, who on the Solemnity of

the Apostles Peter and Paul

give us the noble and holy joy of this day,

grant, we pray, that your Church

may in all things

follow the teaching of those through whom

she received the beginnings of right religion.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ,

your Son,

who lives and reigns with you

in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

God,

for ever and ever.

R.) Amen.

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FIRST READING

ACTS 12:1-11

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A READING FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES

(NOW I KNOW THE LORD REALLY DID SAVE ME FROM HEROD.)

King Herod started persecuting certain members of the Church.

He beheaded James the brother of John,

and when he saw that this pleased the Jews

he decided to arrest Peter as well.

This was during the days of Unleavened Bread,

and he put Peter in prison,

assigning four squads of four soldiers

each to guard him in turns.

Herod meant to try Peter in public

after the end of Passover week.

All the time Peter was under guard

the Church prayed to God for him unremittingly.

On the night before Herod was to try him,

Peter was sleeping between two soldiers,

fastened with double chains,

while guards kept watch at the main entrance to the prison.

Then suddenly the angel of the Lord stood there,

and the cell was filled with light.

He tapped Peter on the side and woke him.

“Get up!” he said “Hurry!”

– and the chains fell from his hands.

The angel then said,

“Put on your belt and sandals.”

After he had done this, the angel next said,

“Wrap your cloak round you and follow me.”

Peter followed him, but had no idea that what the angel did was all happening in reality;

he thought he was seeing a vision.

They passed through two guard posts one after the other,

and reached the iron gate leading to the city.

This opened of its own accord;

they went through it and had walked the whole length of one street

when suddenly the angel left him.

It was only then that Peter came to himself.

“Now I know it is all true,” he said.

“The Lord really did send his angel and has saved me

from Herod and from all that the Jewish people

were so certain would happen to me.”

The word of the Lord.