In
the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
We
remember this day the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, missionary
preachers to the Jews and Gentiles. We thank God for them. For they
were men obsessed not with speculation about what Jesus would do or
about how we should behave or believe. They were men inspired by God
to care for nothing but the saving reality of who Jesus is. Red
adorns the Altar this day not to remind us so much of the blood that
they shed, but to remind us of the Blood by which they were
transferred into heaven. For that Blood, shed for them and for us, by
God in our Flesh, is also poured forth this day from the Chalice to
cleanse your lips and inspire your confession.
On
this day, we commemorate not primarily Peter and Paul, but their
confession – their answer to the question “Who do you say that
I am?”
