To spread the Good News.

sharing the message of salvation and redemption through Jesus Christ.

This is motivated by a biblical mandate to make disciples of all nations.

 

 ＊＊＊ 1st Reading ＊＊＊     

Ephesians 2:19-22

Now,

You are no longer strangers or guests, but fellow citizens of the holy people:

you are of the household of God. You are the house, whose foundations are the apostles and prophets,

and whose cornerstone is Christ Jesus. In him, the whole structure is joined together,

and rises, to be a holy temple, in the Lord. In him, you, too, are being built, to become the spiritual Sanctuary of God.

 

Ps 19:2-3, 4-5

Their message goes out through all the earth.

 

＊＊＊ Gospel ＊＊＊     

Luke 6:12-16

 At this time, Jesus went out into the hills to pray, spending the whole night in prayer with God.

When day came, he called his disciples to him, and chose Twelve of them, whom he called 'apostles':

Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew; James and John; Philip and Bartholomew;

Matthew and Thomas; James son of Alpheus and Simon called the Zealot;

Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who would be the traitor.

 

Gospel Reflection ：

"To spread the Good News."

In his Letter to the Ephesians, Saint Paul describes the composition of the Church in terms of a house,

"whose foundations are the apostles and prophets, and whose cornerstone is Christ Jesus."

Our faith and our communion as the Church are built on the faith and preaching of the apostles, aligned to the Truth who is Christ.

That preaching was presented not only in their words, but also in the manner of the life and death of the apostles.

Just as the whole of God's creation wordlessly speaks of him, so the martyrdom of the apostles is a wordless

proclamation of Christ as Lord and Saviour; a message which resounds through the ages.

 

Today, in celebrating the apostles Simon and Jude, we acknowledge their dedication to Christ,

even unto death. Instructed by Christ at his Ascension and guided by the Holy Spirit,

the apostles understood that their mission was to spread the Good News.

Each of us makes up part of the House of God that is the Church.

So, what is my vocation? What is my mission? How do I bring Christ to others?