St Andrew

  30^th November

And [Jesus] said to them,
“Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”

Matthew 4 v 19

Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said
and who had followed Jesus. The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him,

We have found the Messiah (that is, the Christ). And he brought him to Jesus.

John 1: 40 - 42a

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed?

And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without 
someone preaching?
And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those 
who preach the good news!”

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Romans 10: 13 – 15, 17

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Apostle &

Patron Saint of Scotland

St Andrew was originally one of the disciples of St John the Baptist;

John 1: 36 tells of St John pointing Jesus out to his disciples as he passed,
describing him as “the Lamb of God.” Then St Andrew, along

with another disciple, left him and followed Jesus.

Though St Andrew was not a member of the 'inner circle' (i.e. Peter, James and John),
nor described as a leader among the disciples, he nevertheless appears prominently in several
recorded incidents, namely: his immediate response to Jesus' call to follow him,
and the subsequent fetching of his brother Simon Peter;

and the part he played in the parable of the feeding of the five thousand,
when he brought the boy with the five loaves and two fishes to Jesus.

It is said that St Andrew was killed by being fastened to an X-shaped cross,

where he suffered death at the hands of angry pagans.

Activities:

Sing 'For Those in Peril On the Seas'; pray for fishermen