S. Andrew the Apostle
Tuesday - Rm Ps 10.9-18 18 Mt from 4.18 to 22: They immediately left their nets and followed him - Teacher, where do you live?
Today the liturgy fixing his eyes on the Apostle Andrew, brother of Peter, called to share the most intimate moments with Jesus as the transfiguration and agony in Gethsemane. Preacher of the gospel in Asia Minor and Greece. Consumes his martyrdom in Patras, Greece. His relics, venerated in St. Peter's in Rome by Pope Paul VI were returned to the Greek Orthodox Church, and exposed for veneration in the place of his martyrdom. In the liturgy of the word that St. Paul writes to the Romans, affirming the need the mandate to preach the faith which will give rise after listening to the testimony must follow. Matthew instead reminds us how promptly the brothers Peter and Andrew, followed by James and John, upon the call of Jesus, leave everything and follow him in his route from village to village to proclaim the good news. In St. Andrew, you can admire two attitudes: The research and testimony. Andrea is a disciple of John the Baptist. Before his death, his teacher asked him to follow Jesus but He wants to know who is this Jesus of Nazareth. We listen to John: "And the two disciples followed Jesus Jesus saw them following, said: What do you want? They answered him, Rabbi (which means teacher) where are you staying? He said to them: Come and see. They came and saw where he lived, and that day they stayed with him. It was about four in the afternoon. "The two disciples of the Baptist and John the Evangelist Andrea. After this experience of living with Jesus understands Andrea: Now he knows who Jesus is and becomes his mission. He first found his brother Simon and said: We have found the Messiah (which means Christ) and brought him to Jesus after this meeting, when he felt called by Jesus and his brother, does not pose any delay. Leave everything and follow the master. His testimony is full of faith. He died on the cross to X is known as "cross of Saint Andrew." I think that would be our duty to follow the search for Andrea in our lives: The search for God and believes his plan of salvation through Christ prepared. We should learn from St. Andrew to respond promptly to the demands of grace and not to keep to ourselves what we found in our faith but on the roofs proclaim and witness with life and words. MBS
Journal "A Sua Immagine" - comment by Msgr. Francesco Ruppi
the feast of the apostle Andrew, the liturgy makes us listen to the page of Matthew, when we remember the calling of the Twelve Apostles. After a night of prayer, walking along the Sea of \u200b\u200bGalilee, Jesus saw two fishermen, Simon and Andrew his brother, who are throwing nets into the lake, for they were fishermen. He calls them and says, "follow me, I will make you fishers of men." The nice thing is that the two left their nets and should be with the Lord. Andrea is bigger than Simon, but at Caesarea Philippi, after a brief examination of faith, Simon goes first to his brother and became leader of the apostles, Jesus changed his name to Peter, the first pope, who has the task of sustaining the faith of the disciples of Christ. The Gospel of Matthew recalls that after the two brothers, the Teacher saw two other brothers, James and John, sons of Zebedee, also calls them "and they immediately
left the boat of his father and followed him." To Jesus' call is answered immediately, with confidence and generosity.
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