From: richarra@gmail.com   
      
   October 28th - Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles and Martyrs   
      
   (d. First Century)   
      
   Simon was a simple Galilean, a brother of Jesus, as the ancients called   
   one's   
   close relatives - aunts, uncles, first cousins; he was one of the Saviour's   
   four   
   first cousins, with James the Less, Jude and Joseph, all sons of Mary, the   
   wife   
   of Alpheus, or Cleophas, either name being a derivative of the Aramaic   
   Chalphai.   
   The latter was the brother of Saint Joseph, according to tradition. All the   
   sons   
   of this family were raised at Nazareth near the Holy Family. (See the Gospel   
   of   
   Saint Matthew 13:53-58.) Simon, Jude and James were called by Our Lord to be   
   Apostles, pillars of His Church, and Joseph the Just was His loyal disciple.   
      
   Saint Simon the Zealot or the Zealous, was the name this Apostle bore among   
   the   
   twelve. He preached in Egypt, Mauritania (Spain), and Lybia, leaving behind   
   him   
   the fertile hills of Galilee, where he had been engaged in the healthful   
   cultivation of the vineyards and olive gardens. He later rejoined his   
   brother,   
   Saint Jude, in Persia, where they labored and died together. At first they   
   were   
   respected by the king, for they had manifested power over two ferocious   
   tigers   
   who had terrorized the land. With the king, sixty thousand Persians became   
   Christians, and churches rose over the ruins of the idolatrous temples.   
      
   But the ancient enemy, who never sleeps, rose up, and when the two went   
   elsewhere the pagans commanded them to sacrifice to the sun. Both Apostles,   
   just   
   before that time, had seen Our Lord amid His Angels. Simon said to Jude,   
   "One of   
   the Angels said to me, I will take you out of the temple and bring the   
   building   
   down upon their heads. I answered him, Let it not be so; perhaps some of   
   them   
   will be converted." They prayed for mercy for the people and offered their   
   lives   
   to God. Saint Simon told the crowd that their gods were only demons, and   
   ordered   
   them to come out of the statues, which they did, revealing themselves under   
   hideous forms. But the idolaters fell on the Apostles and massacred them,   
   while   
   they blessed God and prayed for their murderers.   
      
   Saint Jude has left us a short but powerful epistle, written after the death   
   of   
   his brother James, bishop of Jerusalem, and addressed to the new Christians   
   being tempted by false brethren and heretics.   
      
   Reflection: Zeal is an ardent love which makes a man fearless in defense of   
   God's honor, and earnest to make known the truth at all costs. If we desire   
   to   
   be children of the Saints, we must be zealous for the Faith.   
      
   Source: Vie des Saints pour tous les jours de l'année, by Abbé L. Jaud   
   (Mame:   
   Tours, 1950).   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   What could be more out of keeping with our holy religion then impure   
   language?   
   It   
   outrages God. It scandalizes our neighbor. Can a Christian really afford to   
   occupy   
   his mind with such horrible images?   
   -St. John Vianney   
      
   Bible Quote:   
    It is God who works in you both to will and to accomplish. Phil. 2:13   
      
      
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   The prayers ordered by Pope Leo XIII after the traditional Low Mass:   
      
   Hail Mary... (thrice)   
   Hail, Holy Queen...   
      
   O God, our refuge and strength, look down in mercy on Thy   
   people who cry to Thee;  and by the intercession of the   
   glorious and immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of St.   
   Joseph her spouse, of Thy apostles Peter and Paul, and of all   
   the saints, in mercy and goodness hear our prayers for the   
   conversion of sinners, and for the liberty and exaltation of our   
   holy Mother the Church.  Through Christ our Lord.  Amen.   
      
   St. Michael, defend us in battle; be our safeguard against the   
   wickedness and snares of the Devil; may God rebuke him, we   
   humbly pray, and do thou, Prince of the Heavenly Host, by   
   the power of God, thrust into Hell Satan and all the other evil   
   spirits that prowl through the world seeking the ruin of souls.   
   Amen.   
   [Traditional indulgence of 300 days - Leo XIII 9/25/1888]   
      
   Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us!   
   (thrice)[Traditional indulgence of 7 years and seven   
   quarantines - Pius X 6/17/1904]   
      
   Nihil Obstat:  Remy Lafort   
   Imprimatur: +  John M. Farley, Archbishop of N.Y.    Sept 19, 1908   
      
      
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   Canticle Philippians 2   
      
   Christ, God's servant   
      
   Jesus Christ, although he shared God's nature, did not try to seize equality   
   with God for himself; but emptied himself, took on the form of a slave, and   
   became like a man - not in appearance only, for he humbled himself by   
   accepting   
   death - even death on a cross.   
   For this, God has raised him high, and given him the name that is above   
   every   
   name,   
   so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bend, in heaven, on earth, and   
   under the earth,   
   and every tongue will proclaim "Jesus Christ is Lord", to the glory of God   
   the   
   Father.   
      
   Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,   
    as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,   
    world without end.   
   Amen.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)