These martyrs [Peter and Paul] realized what they taught: they pursued justice, they confessed the truth, they died for it. Both apostles share the same feast day, for these two were one. Peter went first, and Paul followed. And so we celebrate this day made holy for us by the apostles’ blood. Let us embrace what they believed, their life, their labors, their sufferings, their preaching and their confession of faith.

—Sermon 295