Friday, October 28, 2011 {Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles (Feast)}

REFLECTION FOR TODAY
Mary, I wish always to be your child. I give you my heart; keep it for ever. O Jesus, O Mary, be always my friends. I pray you both to let me die rather than commit a sin.
-- St Dominic Savio

READINGS FOR TODAY
First Reading: Ephesians 2:19-22
19 So then, you Gentiles are not foreigners or strangers any longer; you are now citizens together with God's people and members of the family of God.
20 You, too, are built upon the foundation laid by the apostles and prophets,
the cornerstone being Christ Jesus himself.
21 He is the one who holds the whole building together and makes it grow into a sacred temple dedicated to the Lord.

22 In union with him you too are being built together with all the others into a place where God lives through his Spirit.

Psalms: Psalm 19:2-5
2 Each day announces it to the following day; each night repeats it to the next.
3 No speech or words are used, no sound is heard;
4 yet their message goes out to all the world and is heard to the ends of the earth. God made a home in the sky for the sun;
5 it comes out in the morning like a happy bridegroom, like an athlete eager to run a race.

Gospel: Luke 6:12-16
(Jesus Chooses the Twelve Apostles)
12 At that time Jesus went up a hill to pray and spent the whole night there praying to God.
13 When day came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he named apostles:
14 Simon (whom he named Peter) and his brother Andrew; James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,
15 Matthew and Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, and Simon (who was called the Patriot),
16 Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became the traitor.