Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles tweeted about the Christ's calling of the 12 apostles in the gospel for Tuesday.

"The cost of discipleship is never cheap. What our Lord asks us to do — in our ministries, in our work, in all the responsibilities of our personal and family lives — can bring us anxiety and frustrations, even suffering and persecution,” Gomez tweeted.

Gomez said Catholics must pursue holiness in their daily work and personal lives even though it comes with "anxiety and frustrations, even suffering and prosecution." Gomez emphasized the importance of being and acting as disciples through all parts of life, despite the adversity that may come with it.

Gomez, who is the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), in addition to serving in the largest community of Catholics in the country, encourages Catholics to seek joy in the small things of daily life.

The gospel for Sept. 6 tells of Christ's first disciples, the 12 apostles: Simon (Peter), Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James, Simon, Judas and Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus. Gomez discussed the difficulty of Christian discipleship, saying that we are called to be disciples, but this task is not easy.

The selected reading, Luke 6:12-19, reads: "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. … 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 the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon came to hear him and to be healed 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."