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15 Catholic Things on Saints Jude and Simon Day Today (Oct. 28, 2015)

15 Catholic Things on Saints Jude and Simon Day Today (Oct. 28, 2015)

Last updated on: October 28, 2015 at 4:15 pm by Kathryn Jean Lopez

15 Catholic Things on Saints Jude and Simon Day Today (Oct. 28, 2015) 2015-10-28T16:15:46-05:00 Kathryn Jean Lopez

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Simon and Jude, at the back of the basilica, have candles and flowers for their feast day today. Pray for us! pic.twitter.com/LwcfyoNsex

— Charles, OFM Cap. (@FrCharles) October 28, 2015

I like the fact that the Church twins St Simon, embodiment of zeal, with St Jude, associated with lost or desperate causes. #SimonandJude

— Sr CatherineWybourne (@Digitalnun) October 28, 2015

May St. Simon and St. Jude help us to rediscover the beauty of the Christian faith #feastday #prayforus pic.twitter.com/EBboQv6Eta

— Archdiocese of TO (@archtoronto) October 28, 2015

4. Fr. Steve Grunow: Simon, Jude, and How to Disappear into the Church’s Mission

5. Msgr. Charles Pope: On Humility in Prayer

6. Dan Burke: How do you prepare to pray?

“When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named Apostles” https://t.co/2Z0RHxq6Gq

— US Catholic Bishops (@USCCB) October 28, 2015

Grateful to be inspired by the apostles, we honour today St Simon and St Jude. Pray for us. pic.twitter.com/fwskl6DNqv

— Fr. Patrick Brennan (@Pathound) October 28, 2015

St Simon the Zealot, apostle, holds the saw, a symbol of his martyrdom: may he and St Jude pray for us! https://t.co/Yw9nRMOV0o

— Fr Lawrence Lew OP (@LawrenceOP) October 28, 2015

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Bronze statuette of St Jude Thaddeus from the baldachino in the Franciscan church of St Sepulchre in Washington DC https://t.co/AMzxRPEuR4

— Fr Lawrence Lew OP (@LawrenceOP) October 28, 2015

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Today is feast of Sts Jude and Simon the Zealot. Images from our collection (1st is of Simon!) pic.twitter.com/Inc4650MeK

— Marian Library (@ML_IMRI) October 28, 2015

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Build yourselves up in your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit. Keep yourselves in the love of God and wait… https://t.co/VbtIRf5qrX

— Diana von Glahn (@DianavonGlahn) October 28, 2015

13. From the Liturgy of the Hours today from Saint Cyril of Alexandria on the Gospel of John:

Our Lord Jesus Christ has appointed certain men to be guides and teachers of the world and stewards of his divine mysteries. Now he bids them to shine out like lamps and to cast out their light not only over the land of the Jews but over every country under the sun and over people scattered in all directions and settled in distant lands. That man has spoken truly who said: No one takes honor upon himself, except the one who is called by God, for it was our Lord Jesus Christ who called his own disciples before all others to a most glorious apostolate. These holy men became the pillar and mainstay of the truth, and Jesus said that he was sending them just as the Father had sent him.

By these words he is making clear the dignity of the apostolate and the incomparable glory of the power given to them, but he is also, it would seem, giving them a hint about the methods they are to adopt in their apostolic mission. For if Christ thought it necessary to send out his intimate disciples in this fashion, just as the Father had sent him, then surely it was necessary that they whose mission was to be patterned on that of Jesus should see exactly why the Father had sent the Son. And so Christ interpreted the character of his mission to us in a variety of ways. Once he said: I have come to call not the righteous but sinners to repentance. And then at another time he said: I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. For God sent his Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

Accordingly, in affirming that they are sent by him just as he was sent by the Father, Christ sums up in a few words the approach they themselves should take to their ministry. From what he said they would gather that it was their vocation to call sinners to repentance, to heal those who were sick whether in body or spirit, to seek in all their dealings never to do their own will but the will of him who sent them, and as far as possible to save the world by their teaching.

Surely it is in all these respects that we find his holy disciples striving to excel. To ascertain this is no great labor, a single reading of the Acts of the Apostles or of Saint Paul’s writings is enough.

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On the Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, we pray for the grace to imitate their courage, faithfulness and missionary zeal.

— Bishop Burbidge (@BishopBurbidge) October 28, 2015

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Saints Simon and Jude, apostles who proclaimed the Gospel to all nations, pray for us. #FeastDay

— Bishop Paul Loverde (@Bishop_Loverde) October 28, 2015

P.M. Add-ons:

By your trusting acceptance of trials, you will gain true life. #midafternoonprayer pic.twitter.com/laD207jNXA

— Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) October 28, 2015

From Fr. Roger Landry: “The apostles’ vocation, we see, was born from Christ’s prayer.”

God goes to extreme lengths to remind us of His love.–my new friend Pastor Dave from Bridge to Grace Church in Ga. pic.twitter.com/sujeeG3AZ7

— Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) October 28, 2015

Why do we worry? Be witnesses of Jesus Christ and He will take care of the rest #HomilyTweet pic.twitter.com/vlV5mjjxcO

— Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) October 28, 2015

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