St. Paul the Apostle
Born Saul in Tarsus of Cilicia, a Pharisee of the tribe of Benjamin educated under Gamaliel, he zealously persecuted the early Church until the risen Christ appeared to him on the road to Damascus, after which he was baptized and became the great Apostle to the Gentiles.
Over three missionary journeys he planted churches across Asia Minor, Greece, and beyond, and his fourteen epistles form a foundational part of the New Testament. As a Roman citizen he was beheaded in Rome under Nero, around 67 AD, and the Church commemorates him together with St. Peter on June 29.
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.
For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Love is patient, love is kind. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
If God is for us, who can be against us?
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Prayer of St. Paul for the Church (Ephesians 3)
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height, and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
Troparion of Ss. Peter and Paul
O foremost of the Apostles and teachers of the inhabited earth, intercede with the Master of all to grant peace to the world and great mercy to our souls.
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