SEPTEMBER 16 SANTI CORNELIO and CIPRIANO. Prayer

For that most profound humility for which, though very distinct for every kind of virtue, you always considered yourselves undeserving of every distinction between men even then that the wisest and most pious wanted, by force to raise you to the first dignity of the Church in the times in which an uncommon virtue for rightly disengaging pastoral duties; obtain to all of us, o glorious martyrs Cornelius and Cyprian, who in your imitation we also have a very low idea of ​​ourselves, in order to deserve from God those special blessings that make the most glorious champions of truth and justice. Glory to the Father ...

For that unalterable fidelity with which you always corresponded to your most serious commitments, one of the Roman Pontificate and the other of the primacy of all Africa, therefore of your talents you only needed to glorify in all its anointed faith threatened by the perfidy of schismatics or heretics, while with the example of every virtue you animated all the true faithful to always advance in the exercise of evangelical perfection, and with charity the most generous you washed away the tears of all those afflicted, obtain for all of us, the most glorious martyrs Cornelius and Cyprian, who in your imitation are always constant, thus in fulfilling exactly all the duties of our state as in employing all our strengths to obtain in the best way the glorification of God, or the building up one's neighbor, since this is the perfection of that most holy law which they have the glory of professing. Glory to the Father ...