October 28, 2003, Feast of St. Simon and Jude, Apostles.

A reading from the letter of St. Paul to the Ephesians. Brothers and sisters, you are no longer

strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the Holy On ones and members of the household of God,

built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets with Christ Jesus himself as the capstone.

Through him the whole structure is held together and grows into a temple sacred in the Lord. In him, you also are being built

together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. The Word of the Lord. Responsorial Psalm.

The response is, their message goes out through all the earth. The heavens declare the

glory of God and the firmament proclaims his handiwork. Day pours out the word today and night

to night imparts knowledge. Their message goes out through all the earth. Not a word nor a discourse

whose voice is not heard. Through all the earth their voice resounds and to the ends of the world

their message. Their message goes out through all the earth.

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.

Jesus went up to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God.

When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles,

Simon, whom he named Peter and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Elfias, Simon, who was called a zealot, and Judas the son of James,

and Judas Iscariot who became a traitor. The Gospel of the Lord.