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Tuesday, October 28, 2008, Sts. Simon & Jude
Ephesians 2:19-22, Psalm 19, Luke 6:12-16
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APOSTOLIC SUCCESS-ION
"At daybreak He called His disciples and selected twelve of them to be His
apostles." —Luke 6:13
Jesus went up the mountain, prayed all night long in communion with God,
and, as the sun rose, chose the twelve who were to be His apostles (Lk
6:12-13). By this grand and dramatic setting, Luke indicates that the
apostles were very important in God's plan. In fact, the Church is founded
on them (Eph 2:20; Rv 21:14).
The early Church believed that the apostles were to have successors.
Through the bishops of the Church (cf Acts 1:20-22), the apostolic
ministry would continue as an essential part of the order of the Church
and of God's plan of salvation. Apostolic succession was an almost
universally accepted belief of the Church for 1,500 years up to the time
following the Protestant Reformation. The splintering of the Church into
thousands of denominations and the weakening of the Church through the
Enlightenment and secular humanism has certainly not confirmed the denial
by some Protestants of apostolic succession. Today we have even more
reason to believe that the apostolic ministry continues through the
bishops of the Church.
This means that bishops are important, and that it is vitally important
for us to know and submit to their teachings. The truth of apostolic
succession also indicates that the Pope, as the bishop of all bishops, is
very important. By obeying the Pope and the bishops, we will know the
truth which will set us free (Jn 8:32), be united as members of Christ's
body, and truly build the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.
Prayer: Father, may it make a significant difference to me that the Church
is apostolic.
Promise: "You are strangers and aliens no longer. No, you are fellow
citizens of the saints and members of the household of God." —Eph 2:19
Praise: Even though they abandoned Jesus at His hour of need (Mk 14:50),
God raised Sts. Simon and Jude to a place of power and authority.
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