First vespers of Saint Peter and Saint Paul

                                 _______Collect of the day_

         Grant that

       your church, 

       instructed by 

       their teaching 

       and example, 

        and knit to-

          gether  in 

            unity by 

        your Spirit, 

       may ever stand firm on the one foundation 

  

What an unlikely pair: Peter and Pau: the fisher-man and the Pharisee. The one who walked with Jesus and betrayed him when he was on trial, and whom Jesus instructed, after it all,“Feed my sheep.” And the  who didn’t even know Jesus 

on earth and had to be knocked off his high horse on his 

way to kill Christians. He heard the Voice say “Why are you persecuting me?” and had the nerve to ask  “And who ar you?  Only to receive the answer the risen Chirst still gives today: “I am the  ones who you are persecuting.”  

Two such different blokes. Celebrated together by the church -whose  actions as well as her words teach us that there is room for all of us and that we are to make room for others.

Sometimes God does not preach but simply show us a picture that pierces our hearts and calls out our name.   

God is not faithful but because we are faithful but because he is.