October 28, 2004. Feasts 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 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 Ascariot who became a traitor.

The Gospel of the Lord.