Friday, October 28
FEAST OF SIMON AND JUDE, APOSTLES
Do as they did
Except for Peter, Andrew, James, and John, we know almost nothing about the apostles other than their names, and even some of these are disputed (“Nathaneal” or “Bartholomew”?). Various traditions have Simon preaching to the Berbers in North Africa and martyred in Samaria—or Edessa in Macedonia, or even England. Likewise tradition places Jude in Idumaea (in the Holy Land), Mesopotamia, and Beirut, and one medieval writer claims he was the bridegroom at the wedding feast at Cana! Yet the genuine legacy of these apostles is the faith that you live by today. If you could plot out a genealogy of faith backward through multiple generations, you would have to come to Simon and Jude—or to other barely known pioneers like them who, when Jesus once said, “Come and see,” went and saw and believed.TODAY’S READINGS: Ephesians 2:19-22; Luke 6:12-16 (666)
“You are fellow citizens with the holy ones and members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets.”
CONTRIBUTORS
Alice Camille, Daniel Grippo, Father Larry Janowski, O.F.M., Ann O'Connor, Joel Schorn, Patrice J. Tuohy, and Sister Julie Vieira, I.H.M.
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