Feast of St Philip and St. James

First Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians 15.1-8: "I would remind you brothers and sisters of the good news that I proclaimed to you. For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received".

"Ever family can be traced back to its origins. That is why we can say that all these great churches constitute that one original Church of the apostles, for it is by them that they all come. They are all primitive, all apostolic, because they are all one. They bear witness to this unity by the peace in which they all live, the brotherhood which is their name, the fellowship to which they are pledged" (Tertullain, From the Treatise on the Prescription of Heretics).