Simon the Zealot and Judas Thaddeus were apostles.
Together they baptised, in Persia more
than 60,000 people, including a king
Invitation
May I hereby draw your attention to
the daily reading of the Gospel?
This invitation wants to share with you the joy of the Gospel.
of the Gospel. Everyone, no one excepted,
can experience that joy by opening their hearts
to the healing power of God’s word.
Available every day
Consideration
Almost every month in the Church, we celebrate a feast of the apostles. This liturgical remembrance and celebration is important for our awareness that we are an apostolic Church community, a community that the Lord built on the 12 apostles. Today we celebrate Simon, from Cana, nicknamed the zealot. Judas, also called Taddeus, was the brother of James. Both apostles were killed for their faith around the year 70.
FIRST READING Eph. 2:19-22
Thou art built on the foundation
of the apostles and prophets.
From the letter of the holy apostle Paul to the Christians of Ephesus
Brothers and sisters,
Ye are no longer strangers and displaced persons
but fellow citizens of the saints and household members of God,
built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
while the keystone is Christ Jesus Himself,
who holds the whole edifice in place.
In Him it grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
In Him you too are built up
into a dwelling place of God,
in the Spirit.
INTERLUDIUM Ps. 19(18), 2-3, 4-5
Over all the earth their cry resounds.
The heavens proclaim God’s glory,
the firmament shows us the work of his hands.
The day calls it to the next day,
the night passes it on to the night.
No word is spoken, no voice echoes,
no sound is heard;
yet all over the earth their call resounds,
their message penetrates to the edge of the world.
ALLELUIA
Alleluia.
You, God, we praise.
You, Lord, we praise.
You praise the glorious choir of the apostles.
Alleluia.
GOSPEL Lk. 6, 12-16
Jesus chose twelve disciples,
to whom He also gave the name of apostle.
From the holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to
Luke
In those days Jesus went to the mountains to pray
and spent the night there in prayer to God.
At daybreak He called his disciples to Himself
and chose 12, to whom He also gave the name of apostle :
Simon, to whom He gave the name Peter,
his brother Andrew,
James and John,
Philip and Bartholomew,
Matthew and Thomas,
James, the son of Alphaeus,
Simon nicknamed ‘Zealot’,
Judas the brother of James
and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.
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Laudato Si
Encyclic of
POPE FRANCIS
On caring for the common home
Universal Communion
89. The created things of this world are not free of ownership: “For they are yours, O Lord, who love the living” (Wis 11:26). This is the basis of our conviction that, as part of the universe, called into being by one Father, all of us are linked by unseen bonds and together form a kind of universal family, a sublime communion which fills us with a sacred, affectionate and humble respect. Here I would reiterate that “God has joined us so closely to the world around us that we can feel the desertification of the soil almost as a physical ailment, and the extinction of a species as a painful disfigurement”.
To be continued
The Bible text in this issue is taken from The New Bible Translation,
©Dutch Bible Society 2004/2007.
Considerations from Liturgical suggestions for weekdays and Sundays
Laudato Si Official English translation
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