Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the world.

To me Thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened. Ps. O Lord, Thou hast proved me, and known me: Thou hast known my sitting down, and my rising up. Glory be to the Father.

O God, who through Thy blessed Apostles hast brought us to the knowledge of Thy Name: grant us both to celebrate their everlasting glory by making progress in virtue, and by our progress to celebrate it.

Brethren: Now you are no more strangers and foreigners; but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and the domestics of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone: in whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord. In whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the Spirit.

Thou shalt make them princes over all the earth: they shall remember Thy name, O Lord. V. Instead of thy fathers, sons are born to thee: therefore shall people praise thee.

At that time, Peter said to Jesus: Behold we have left all things, and have followed Thee: what therefore shall we have? And Jesus said to them: Amen, I say to you, that you, who have followed Me, in the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit on the seat of His majesty, you also shall sit on twelve seats judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for My name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall possess life everlasting.

We beseech Thee, O Lord, that being filled with the saving mysteries, we may worthily celebrate the festival of those by whose teaching we have been nourished with the same.