Jesus departed 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 [Nathaniel], 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.
And he came down with them and stood on a stretch of level ground. A great crowd of his disciples and a large number of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon came to hear him and to be cured of their diseases, and even those who were tormented by unclean spirits were cured. Everyone in the crowd sought to touch him because power came forth from him and healed them all.
The Gospel of the Lord.
"Jesus departed to the mountain to pray." A mountain is good place to pray. We live here in a place named for a mountain, "Calvary", the mountain on which Jesus dies, in order for Him to conquer death and rise again. This "Calvary" is a good place to pray.
An "apostle" is one sent forth on a mission, one sent forth to preach the Gospel.
At the end of Mass, the priest or deacon says, "The mass is ended. Go in peace." Originally, the dismissal was in Latin, "Ite, Missa est." which means "Ite" or "Go", "missa est" means "the message has been completed" or "Go and preach the completed message which you have heard."
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