Oct. 28: ST. SIMON AND ST. JUDE THADDEUS, APOSTLES (Feast). MASS PRAYERS AND PROPER READINGS.

Oct. 28:
ST. SIMON AND ST. JUDE THADDEUS, APOSTLES (Feast). MASS PRAYERS AND PROPER READINGS.

St. Simon is usually called the “Cananean” and also “the Zealot”, probably because he belonged to the Jewish party of “the Zealots of the Law”. St. Jude, also called Thaddeus or “Courageous”, is the author of a short epistle in the New Testament. St. Simon is often associated with St. Jude as an evangelizing team. The most widespread tradition is that after evangelizing in Egypt, Simon joined Jude in Persia and Armenia or Beirut, Lebanon, where both were martyred in 65 AD.

ENTRANCE ANTIPHON
Isti sunt viri sancti, quos elégit Dóminus in caritáte non ficta, et dedit illis glóriam sempitérnam.
These are the holy men whom the Lord chose in his own sheer love; and he gave them eternal glory.
[–» Greeting]

The Gloria in excelsis (Glory to God in the highest) is said.

COLLECT
O God, who by the blessed Apostles have brought us to acknowledge your Name, grant graciously, through the intercession of Saints Simon and Jude, that the Church may constantly grow by increase of the people who believe in you. Through our Lord.

Proper Readings

READING I
Eph 2:19–22
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.
 
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
R. Their message goes out through all the earth.
In omnem terram exívit sonus eórum.
The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.
Day pours out the word to day,
and night to night imparts knowledge.
R.
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.
R.
 
ALLELUIA
Te Deum laudámus, te Dóminum confitémur; te gloriósus Apostolórum chorus laudat, Dómine.
You are God: we praise you; you are the Lord: we acclaim you; the glorious company of apostles praise you.
 
GOSPEL
Lk 6:12–16
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 Alphaeus, Simon who was called a Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

For Pope Benedict’s reflection on St. Simon and St. Jude Thaddeus, click HERE.

PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS
As we venerate the perpetual glory of the holy Apostles Simon and Jude, O Lord, we ask that you receive our prayers and lead us to worthy celebration of the sacred mysteries. Through Christ our Lord.
[–» Eucharistic Prayer]
[–» Preface of the Apostles]

COMMUNION ANTIPHON
Si quis díligit me, sermónem meum servábit, dicit Dóminus; et Pater meus díliget eum, et ad eum veniémus, et mansiónem apud eum faciémus.
Whoever loves me will keep my word, says the Lord; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
[–» Communion]
 
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
Having received this Sacrament, O Lord, we humbly implore you in the Holy Spirit, that what we do to honor the glorious passion of the Apostles Simon and Jude, may keep us ever in your love. Through Christ our Lord.
[–» Concluding Rite]

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