introducing Jesus - st andrew 34th week friday

Today we celebrate the feast of the Apostle Andrew.  Peculiar with this apostle is the fact that he is always depicted in the gospels as one who introduced people to Jesus.  The first incident happened when he introduced his brother Simon who was later called Peter to Jesus.  Another was during the feeding of the five thousand.  When Jesus asked them to get food to feed five thousand men the apostle Philip gave up, but Andrew found a solution.  He found a boy who had five loaves a few fish.  He brought the boy to Jesus, introduced him and the rest is history. Another incident was the meeting with the Greeks.  The Greeks wanted to meet Jesus but they were afraid to come near him for fear that Jesus might reject them.  Again Andrew came to the rescue and introduced the Greeks to Jesus.  That is the apostle Andrew.

If there is one important good we should imitate in St. Andrew I believe it should be this - to make every effort to introduce people to Jesus - to make every effort to bring Jesus to other people.  

This is the significance of Andrew to all of us.  Andrew introduces to us the missionary vocation – to introduce Jesus to people, to bring people to Jesus.  We are all called, as Jesus said in the gospel, to become fishers of men.