Daily Gospel ~ Monday, 28 October 2013

Daily Gospel ~ Monday, 28 October 2013

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.(John 6:68, Messianic WEB)

Saint Simon and Saint Jude, apostles - Feast

Saint of the Day:

SAINTS SIMON AND JUDE
Apostles
(Feast)

The name of Saint Simon usually appears eleventh in the list of the apostles. Nothing is known of him except that he was born at Cana and is surnamed "The Zealot".
Saint Jude, also called Thaddeus, was the apostle who asked the Lord at the Last Supper why he has manifested himself only to his disciples and not to the whole world (John 12:22).

Christian Prayer : The Liturgy of the Hours - Daughters of St. Paul * St. Paul Editions * 1976

Saint Simon and Saint Jude, apostles - Feast

Book of Ephesians 2:19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones, and of the household of God, 20 being built on the foundation of the emissaries and prophets, Messiah Yeshua himself being the chief cornerstone; 21 in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord; 22 in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.(Messianic WEB)

Psalm 19:2 Day after day they pour out speech,

and night after night they display knowledge.

3 There is no speech nor language,

where their voice is not heard.

4 Their voice has gone out through all the earth,

their words to the end of the world.

In them he has set a tent for the sun,

5 which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room,

like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.(Messianic WEB)

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint Luke 6:12 In these days, he went out to the mountain to pray, and he continued all night in prayer to God. 13 When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named emissaries: 14 Simon, whom he also named Peter; Andrew, his brother; Jacob; Yochanan; Philip; Bartholomew; 15 Matthew; Thomas; Jacob, the son of Halfai; Simon, who was called the Zealot; 16 Judah the son of Jacob; and Judah Iscariot, who also became a traitor. (Messianic WEB)

Saint Simon and Saint Jude, apostles - Feast

Commentary of the day:

Vatican Council II 

Dogmatic Constitution on the Church « Lumen gentium », § 24-25

"A large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon came to hear him"

Bishops, as successors of the apostles, receive from the Lord, to whom was given all power in heaven and on earth, the mission to teach all nations and to preach the Gospel to every creature, so that all men may attain to salvation by faith, baptism and the fulfilment of the commandments.(161) To fulfill this mission, Christ the Lord promised the Holy Spirit to the Apostles, and on Pentecost day sent the Spirit from heaven, by whose power they would be witnesses to Him before the nations and peoples and kings even to the ends of the earth.(162) And that duty, which the Lord committed to the shepherds of His people, is a true service, which in sacred literature is significantly called "diakonia" or ministry...
Among the principal duties of bishops the preaching of the Gospel occupies an eminent place. For bishops are preachers of the faith, who lead new disciples to Christ, and they are authentic teachers, that is, teachers endowed with the authority of Christ, who preach to the people committed to them the faith they must believe and put into practice, and by the light of the Holy Spirit illustrate that faith. They bring forth from the treasury of Revelation new things and old, making it bear fruit and vigilantly warding off any errors that threaten their flock. Bishops, teaching in communion with the Roman Pontiff, are to be respected by all as witnesses to divine and Catholic truth. In matters of faith and morals, the bishops speak in the name of Christ and the faithful are to accept their teaching and adhere to it with a religious assent.
(Biblical references : Mt 28,18-20; Mk 16,15-16; Acts 1,8; 2,1f; 9,15; 1,17.25; Mt 13,52)

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