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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Andrew
DESCRIPTION:THE APOSTLE\, \nST ANDREW \nFrom a sermon by St John Henry Newman7 \n◊◊◊ \nSt John the Evangelist\, [introduces St Andrew in his gospel] under \ncircumstances which show that\, little as is known of this Apostle now\, he was\, in \nfact\, very high in the favour and confidence of his Lord. In his twelfth chapter he \ndescribes Andrew as bringing to Christ certain Greeks who came up to \nJerusalem to worship and who were desirous of seeing Him. And\, what is \nremarkable\, these strangers had first applied to St Philip\, who\, though an \nApostle himself\, instead of taking upon him to introduce them had recourse to \nhis fellowtownsman St Andrew… “Philip comes\, and tells Andrew; and again\, \nAndrew and Philip tell Jesus.” \nThese two Apostles are also mentioned together in the sixth chapter of the \nsame Gospel\, at the consultation which preceded the miracle of the loaves and \nfishes; and there again Andrew is engaged\, as before in the office of introducing \nstrangers to Christ. “There is a lad here\,” he says to his Lord\, a lad who perhaps\, \nhad not courage to come forward of himself\, “who has five barley loaves and \ntwo small fishes.”… After our Lord had predicted the ruin of the Temple\, “Peter\, \nJames\, John\, and Andrew asked Him privately: ‘Tell us when shall these \nthings be?‘” and it was to these four that our Saviour revealed the signs of his \ncoming\, and of the end of the world. Here St Andrew is represented as in the \nspecial confidence of Christ; and associated too with those Apostles whom he is \nknown to have selected from the Twelve\, on various occasions\, by tokens of his \npeculiar Favour. \nLittle is known of St Andrew in addition to these inspired notices of him. \nHe is said to have preached the Gospel in Scythia; and he was at length martyred \nin Achaia. His death was by crucifixion; that kind of cross being used\, according \nto the tradition\, which still goes by his name. Yet\, little as Scripture tells us \nconcerning him\, it affords us enough for a lesson\, and that an important one. \nThese are the facts before us. St Andrew was the first convert among the \nApostles; he was especially in our Lord’s confidence; thrice is he described as \nintroducing others to him; lastly\, he is little known in history\, while the place of \ndignity and the name of highest renown have been allotted to his brother Simon\, \nwhom he was the means of bringing to the knowledge of his Saviour. \nOur lesson then is this; that those persons are not necessarily the most \nuseful in their generation\, nor the most favored by God\, who make the most \nnoise in the world\, and who seem to be principals in the great changes and \nevents recorded in history; on the contrary\, that even when we are able to point \nto a certain number of persons as the real instruments of any great blessings \nvouchsafed to humankind\, our relative estimate of them\, one with another\, is \noften very erroneous: so that\, on the whole\, if we would trace truly the hand of \nGod in human affairs\, and pursue his bounty as displayed in the world to its \noriginal sources\, we must unlearn our admiration of the powerful and \ndistinguished\, our reliance on the opinion of society\, our respect for the \ndecisions of the learned or the multitude\, and turn our eyes to private life\, \nwatching in all we read or witness for the true sign of God’s presence\, the graces \nof personal holiness manifested in his elect; which\, weak as they may seem to \nhumankind\, are mighty through God\, and have an influence upon the course of \nhis Providence\, and bring about great events in the world at large\, when the \nwisdom and strength of the natural man are of no avail.
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CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
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