PRI Reflections on Scripture | Feast of Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles

Finding God In Our Hearts with Msgr. Don Fischer · Oct 28, 2025 · 6m

Gospel

Luke 6:12-16

Jesus went up to the mountain to pray,

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.

Reflection

There's an interesting way in which we need to understand the distinction between a disciple and an apostle. Disciple is a word that means a…