People from everywhere came to Jesus, to hear him and to be cured of their diseases. People tormented by unclean spirits were also cured, and everyone in the crowd was trying to touch him because power came out of him that cured them all. Many of the saints who had gone before us had done likewise and more! People came to hear about Jesus, and they were cured of their diseases, many were delivered from evil and unclean spirits, likewise many came to touch them and were cured for the power of Jesus flowed through them.
Are we not the anointed ones empowered through our baptism to do greater things than He our Lord did? Yes indeed we are! We are sent into the world to proclaim the reign of God. We give glory to the risen Christ among us. Though our eyes have not seen his face we believe and we spread the story of our faith through healing, deliverance and ministering His peace, love and joy.
I am Your house Lord, come dwell in me. Amen
Saints Simon and Jude pray for us…
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First reading
Ephesians 2:19-22 ·
In Christ you are no longer aliens, but citizens like us
You are no longer aliens or foreign visitors: you are citizens like all the saints, and part of God’s household. You are part of a building that has the apostles and prophets for its foundations, and Christ Jesus himself for its main cornerstone. As every structure is aligned on him, all grow into one holy temple in the Lord; and you too, in him, are being built into a house where God lives, in the Spirit.
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Gospel
Luke 6:12-19
Jesus chooses his twelve apostles
Jesus went out into the hills to pray; and he spent the whole night in prayer to God. When day came he summoned his disciples and picked out twelve of them; he called them ‘apostles’: Simon whom he called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon called the Zealot, Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot who became a traitor.
He then came down with them and stopped at a piece of level ground where there was a large gathering of his disciples with a great crowd of people from all parts of Judaea and from Jerusalem and from the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon who had come to hear him and to be cured of their diseases. People tormented by unclean spirits were also cured, and everyone in the crowd was trying to touch him because power came out of him that cured them all.
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