DAILY READINGS & REFLECTION

OCTOBER 28, 2024

MONDAY - FEAST OF SAINTS SIMON AND JUDE, APOSTLES

FIRST READING

EPHESIANS 2:19-22

19 So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21 in whom the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; 22 in whom you also are built into it for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

The Word of the Lord
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RESPONSORIAL PSALM

PSALMS 18(19):2-5

Response: Their message goes out through all the earth.

The heavens are telling the glory of God;
and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.
Day to day pours forth speech,
and night to night declares knowledge.

R. Their message goes out through all the earth.

There is no speech, nor are there words;
their voice is not heard;
yet their voice goes out through all the earth,
and their words to the end of the world.

R. Their message goes out through all the earth.
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GOSPEL

Jesus chose twelve apostles

LUKE 6:12-16 OR (LUKE 6:12-19 / LUKE 13:10-17)

12 In these days he went out to the mountain to pray; and all night he continued in prayer to God. 13 And when it was day, he called his disciples, and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles; 14 Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, 15 and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, 16 and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

The Gospel of the Lord
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REFLECTION

DAILY QUOTE FROM THE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS

Jesus chose fishermen and tax collectors to be apostles, by Ambrose of Milan, 339-397 A.D.

"It says, 'He called his disciples, and he chose twelve of them,' whom he appointed sowers of the faith, to spread the help of human salvation throughout the world. At the same time, observe the heavenly counsel. He chose not wise men, nor rich men, nor nobles, but fishermen and tax collectors, whom he would direct, lest they seem to have seduced some by wisdom, or bought them with riches, or attracted them to their own grace with the authority of power and nobility. He did this so that the reasoning of truth, not the grace of disputation, should prevail."

(excerpt from EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF LUKE 5.44)
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Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
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