First Reading

Reading from the letter of the Apostle Saint Paul to the Ephesians

Ephesians 2, 19-22

Brothers and sisters: You are no longer foreigners or strangers; you are fellow citizens with the saints and belong to the household of God, because you have been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.

In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.

Gospel

Reading from the holy Gospel according to Saint Luke

Luke 6, 12-16

One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.

When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles: Simon (whom he named Peter), his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.