MASS READING - FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER 2016

Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles - Feast

Liturgical Colour: Red.


Readings at Mass

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Entrance Antiphon

These are the holy men
whom the Lord chose in his own perfect love;
to them he gave eternal glory.


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Collect

O God, who by the blessed Apostles
have brought us to acknowledge your name,
graciously grant,
through the intercession of Saints Simon and Jude,
that the Church may constantly grow
by increase of the peoples who believe in you.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.


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First reading
Ephesians 2:19-22

You are no longer aliens or foreign visitors: you are citizens like all the saints, and part of God’s household. You are part of a building that has the apostles and prophets for its foundations, and Christ Jesus himself for its main cornerstone. As every structure is aligned on him, all grow into one holy temple in the Lord; and you too, in him, are being built into a house where God lives, in the Spirit.


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Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 18:2-5

Their word goes forth through all the earth.

The heavens proclaim the glory of God,
    and the firmament shows forth the work of his hands.
Day unto day takes up the story
    and night unto night makes known the message.

Their word goes forth through all the earth.

No speech, no word, no voice is heard
    yet their span extends through all the earth,
    their words to the utmost bounds of the world.

Their word goes forth through all the earth.


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Gospel Acclamation
cf.Te Deum

Alleluia, alleluia!
We praise you, O God,
we acknowledge you to be the Lord.
The glorious company of the apostles praise you, O Lord.
Alleluia!


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Gospel
Luke 6:12-16

Jesus went out into the hills to pray; and he spent the whole night in prayer to God. When day came he summoned his disciples and picked out twelve of them; he called them ‘apostles’: Simon whom he called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon called the Zealot, Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot who became a traitor.


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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.


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Communion Antiphon
Jn 14: 23

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.


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Prayer after Communion

Having received this Sacrament, O Lord,
we humbly implore you in the Holy Spirit,
that what we do to honour the glorious passion
of the Apostles Simon and Jude
may keep us ever in your love.
Through xup aw  Christ our Lord.