Saints Simon & Jude

The biography for our two saints today is short and to the point. "The name of Saint Simon usually appears eleventh in the list of the apostles. Nothing is known of him except that he was born in Cana and is surnamed 'the Zealot.' Saint Jude, also called Thaddeus, was the apostle who asked the Lord at the Last Supper why he was going to manifest himself only to his disciples and not to the whole world (Jn 14:22)" (Magnificat, 373-74). We hear the account of Jesus calling his disciples together, after spending the night in prayer, and calling 12 of them whom he also called Apostles, Luke 6:12-16. As I said at our daily Mass, we may not know too much about them, but we know that they were called by our Lord and were given the mission to proclaim the Good News. That is our call as well as we live in this present day. The Lord calls us to be his disciples and in doing so, we must deny ourselves, pick up our cross and follow him. Those early disciples and Apostles did that and we need to do the same. Let us follow the example of Saints Simon & Jude and may they intercede for us as we continue to the mission of the church that has been entrusted to us! God Bless You!!!