Year of Sts Peter and Paul

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As we start the year of Sts Peter and Paul, would anyone like to suggest an appropriate way to celebrate the year?
 
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As we start the year of Sts Peter and Paul, would anyone like to suggest an appropriate way to celebrate the year?
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Minor nitpick - it’s actually just the year of St Paul. St Peter didn’t get a look in (well, I suppose every year is St Peter’s year in the Catholic church, eh?)
 
Pope Benedict XVI launched a new Catechesis for his General Audience for this year. The topic will be St. Paul.

Here is a snippet of what he said yesterday:
Last Sunday, the Solemnity of the Apostles Peter and Paul, marked the beginning of a Year dedicated to the figure and teaching of the Apostle Paul. Today’s Audience begins a new series of catecheses aimed at understanding more deeply the thought of Saint Paul and its continuing relevance. Paul, as we know, was a Jew, and consequently a member of a distinct cultural minority in the Roman Empire. At the same time, he spoke Greek, the language of the wider Hellenistic culture, and was a Roman citizen. Paul’s proclamation of the Risen Christ, while grounded in Judaism, was marked by a universalist vision and it was facilitated by his familiarity with three cultures. He was thus able to draw from the spiritual richness of contemporary philosophy, and Stoicism in particular, in his preaching of the Gospel. The crisis of traditional Greco-Roman religion in Paul’s time had also fostered a greater concern for a personal experience of God. As we see from his sermon before the Areopagus in Athens (cf. Acts 17:22ff.), Paul was able to appeal to these currents of thought in his presentation of the Good News. Against this broad cultural background, Paul developed his teaching, which we will explore in the catecheses of this Pauline Year.
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This is the English summary. However, you can find the remarks, in their entirety (translated from Italian) at:

www.zenit.org
 
i bought a praying with st. paul book from magnificat
it has an entry for every day of the year.
there is a passage from one of st. paul’s letter, a reflection and a little prayer.
very nice
 
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