The word of the day is “proclamation.”  Those who have spent their lives in the church have heard so many sermons, both inspired and uninspired, that they not longer expect to be stirred by any preacher.  Yet in our reading of Romans 10:11-11:2, we find a provocative statement:  “Their sound has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the end of the universe” (Romans 10:18).  This declaration of the power of preaching applies to the preaching of the apostles (OSB footnote on Psalm 19:4).  And so, in the Orthodox Church we hear this hymn on Pentecost, the Feast of SS Peter and Paul, as well as today on the “Synaxis of the Twelve Holy Apostles.” Today we…