Oct 28, 2024. Gospel: John 15:17-25. Ss Simon and Jude, Apostles

Traditional Latin Mass Gospel Readings

⁠ 17 ⁠These things I command you, that you love one another.Haec mando vobis : ut diligatis invicem.

⁠ 18 ⁠If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated me before you.Si mundus vos odit, scitote quia me priorem vobis odio habuit.

⁠ 19 ⁠If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.Si de mundo fuissetis, mundus quod suum erat diligeret : quia vero de mundo non estis, sed ego elegi vos de mundo, propterea odit vos mundus.

⁠ 20 ⁠Remember my word that I said to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you: if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.Mementote sermonis mei, quem ego dixi vobis : non est servus major domino suo. Si me persecuti sunt, et vos persequentur; si sermonem meum servaverunt, et vestrum servabunt.

⁠ 21 ⁠But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they know not him who sent me.Sed haec omnia facient vobis propter nomen meum : quia nesciunt eum qui misit me.

⁠ 22 ⁠If I had not come, and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.Si non venissem, et locutus fuissem eis, peccatum non haberent : nunc autem excusationem non habent de peccato suo.

⁠ 23 ⁠He that hateth me, hateth my Father also.Qui me odit, et Patrem meum odit.

⁠ 24 ⁠If I had not done among them the works that no other man hath done, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father.Si opera non fecissem in eis quae nemo alius fecit, peccatum non haberent : nunc autem et viderunt, et oderunt et me, et Patrem meum.

⁠ 25 ⁠But that the word may be fulfilled which is written in their law: They hated me without cause.Sed ut adimpleatur sermo, qui in lege eorum scriptus est : Quia odio habuerunt me gratis.

The holy Apostles Simon, a Cananean, called Zelotes (the Zealot) and Jude Thadedeus, a brother of St James the Less, a cousin to Jesus, caled Lebbeus (the Courageous), preached the Gospel, the first in Egypt, the second in Mesopotamia. They both suffered martyrdom in Persia in the first century. St Jude wrote a short Epistle in which he exhorts the faithful to beware of heretics.