Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles

Reading 1 and//usccb.org/bible/ephesians/2:19 EPH 2:19-22 Brothers and sistersandYou are no longer strangers and sojourners,but you are fellow citizens with the holy onesand 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 togetherand grows into a temple sacred in the Lordin him you also are being built togetherinto a dwelling place of God in the Spirit. Responsorial Psalm and//usccb.org/bible/psalms/19:2 PS 19:2-3, 4-5 R.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 to day,and night to night imparts knowledge. R.Their message goes out through all the earth. Not a word nor a discoursewhose voice is not heardThrough all the earth their voice resounds,and to the ends of the world, their message. R.Their message goes out through all the earth. Alleluia SeeTe Deum R.Alleluia, alleluia.We praise you, O God,we acclaim you as Lordthe glorious company of Apostles praise you.R.Alleluia, alleluia. Gospel and//usccb.org/bible/luke/6:12 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 ApostlesandSimon, 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.