Opening Prayer
Jesus, what were you looking for when you came from the mountain and began choosing your disciples? Did God tell you who to choose? Were you looking for me? Are you looking at me right now? Did they know what they were getting into? It must have been exciting to hear you look straight into their hearts and say “Come, follow me!” And you sent them to the ends of the earth, like Simon and Jude. They are smiling now with you, but there must have been moments when they wondered about you and what you were about! Your call sustained. Your love empowered them. Your Word gave them courage. God’s presence transformed them. Thank you for your call to me–for including me among your family–among the community of saints and citizen-members of Your Body. Sometimes I don’t know what it means to follow you or just who are you for me, but I want to follow you. Your Spirit calls, empowers and connects me with Your whole Body so that we are the Temple of Your glory and work to include everyone in Your human family into Your dwelling place. Jesus, are you looking at me? Am I afraid to look back? What are you sending me to do today?
Reading 1 Eph 2:19-22
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 Ps 19:2-3, 4-5
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 discourse
whose voice is not heard;
Through 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 See Te Deum
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
We praise you, O God,
we acclaim you as Lord;
the glorious company of Apostles praise you.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel Lk 6:12-16
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.
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