Feast of St. Andrew, the Apostle

The real hero

Matthew 4:18-22

We may be celebrating a National Heroes Day through Andres Bonifacio in our country, but in the Church are are celebrating the feast of the Apostle St. Andrew who has a lot of qualities that is congruent with the Bonifacio.

What is common is that both of them stood for their ideals: for Bonifacio, it is freedom from tyranny while St. Andrew fought to preach the Good News to free men from slavery of sin.  

Freedom, especially in the Christian context is borne from a strong faith.
Faith is born from hearing the Word.
Hearing the Word is born from preaching it.
Preaching the Word comes from being sent.
Being sent comes from being being invited
And Jesus is the one who invites us all to freedom.
From being invited comes forth leaving everything behind.

Now the Good News goes out to all the earth because of people who respond to leave everything behind to follow Jesus.  May we also respond to the call to follow Jesus.

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