Tuesday – Saints Simon and Jude, apostles

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. 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 upon 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 call 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 12 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 twelve, 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

Encyclical of

POPE FRANCISCUS

On caring for the common home

167. The Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992
held should be mentioned. There it was declared that “people are at the
centre of concern regarding sustainable development”. Taking the
reiterating the content of the Stockholm Declaration (1972), Rio
endorsed, among other things, international cooperation on concern
for the ecosystem of the whole earth, the obligation that those who pollute
is financially responsible for it, and the duty to assess the impact of any
work or project on the environment. It has proposed as an objective to reduce
greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere to stabilise the trend of
global warming to be reduced. It has also proposed an agenda with an
programme of action and a convention on biodiversity and established principles laid down on forests. While that summit was truly
innovative and prophetic, its commitments were achieved only to a limited extent because there was no adequate mechanism of monitoring, periodic review and sanction for dereliction of duty had been established. The principles formulated continue to call for effective and rapid avenues for concrete realisation.

To be continued
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