Prayers to St. Simon the Apostle

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Prayer to Saint Simon the Apostle

O Glorious Saint Simon, you were a cousin of Jesus and a devoted follower as well. You were called “the Zealot,” indicating that you were willing to give your life for your religion and your freedom as a human person. Obtain for us the grace to be willing to give our lives for Christ and to labor for the freedom and peace that only God can give. Help us to spend ourselves for God on earth and be received by him in eternal bliss in heaven. Amen.

Prayer from the Liturgical Year, 1903

I have chosen you; and have appointed you, that you should go, and should bring forth fruit, and your fruit should remain (St. John, xv. 61). These words were addressed by the Man-God to you, as to all the twelve, as the Church reminded us in her Night Office (Homily of the 3rd Nocturn, ex Aug). And yet, what remains now of the fruit of your labours in Egypt, in Mesopotamia, in Persia? Can our Lord and his Church be mistaken in their words, or in their appreciations? Certainly not; and proof sufficient is, that, above the region of the senses, and beyond the domain of history, the power infused into the twelve subsists through all ages, and is active in every supernatural birth that developes the mystical Body of our Lord and increases the Church. We, more truly than Tobias, are the children of saints (Tob. ii. 18); we are no longer strangers, but the family of God, His house built upon the foundation of Apostles and Prophets, united by Jesus the chief corner-stone (Eph. ii. 19, 20). All thanks be to you, O holy Apostles, who in labour and sufferings procured us this blessing; maintain in us the title and the rights of this precious adoption.

Great evils surround us; is there any hope left to the world? The confidence of thy devout clients proclaims thee, O Jude, the patron of desperate cases; and for thee, O Simon, this is surely the time to prove thyself Zelotes, full of zeal. Deign, both of you, to hear the Church’s prayers; and aid her, with all your apostolic might, to re-animate faith, to rekindle charity, and to save the world. Amen

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