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(Rm.10:9-18;\xa0\xa0 Ps.19:2-5;\xa0\xa0 Mt.4:18-22) \xa0 \u201cHow beautiful are the feet of those who announce good news!\u201d \xa0 Alleluia! We must have \u201cfaith in the heart\u201d and \u201cconfess with [our] lips that Jesus is Lord\u201d; but how can we believe in Him and call on Him if we have not heard of Him? \xa0\u201cAnd how can [we] hear unless there is someone to preach?\xa0 And how can men preach unless they are sent?\u201d\xa0 Thank the Lord that He has sent the apostles out to the ends of the earth, that \u201ctheir voice has sounded over the whole earth.\u201d\xa0 Where would we be without them? \u201cCome after me and I will make you fishers of men,\u201d Jesus says to His first apostles, two brothers.\xa0 And two brothers Jesus chooses after them, as if He is looking for brothers to call to emphasize our solidarity with Him and with one another.\xa0 Indeed, we are family in the Lord.\xa0 We are His mother and His brothers.\xa0 David\u2019s psalm today speaks of Him who would be called his Son, and illustrates the work of His brothers to come.\xa0 All are one in Him, through time, through space\u2026 for He who is the beginning and end truly becomes our brother. I thank God today for Andrew and his brother Peter, their brothers James and John, and all brothers and sisters in the Lord.\xa0 I thank God especially for their answering His call, their readiness to respond.\xa0 \u201cThey immediately abandoned their nets and became His followers.\u201d \xa0And so strong in the Lord they would become.\xa0 And so clearly their words would be spoken of Him who is risen from the dead, of Him in whom our hearts trust \u2013 of Him of whom we now speak. A joy fills me this day, and should fill us all, for the beauty of the apostles and of their call.\xa0 For now our ears ring with the love of our Jesus, the truth of the ages.\xa0 Now through these faithful disciples we have heard \u201cthe word of Christ\u201d and find it abiding in our souls.\xa0 Let us open our mouths and proclaim Him Lord of all! \xa0 Written, read & chanted by James Kurt; produced by Roger Fortney. \xa0 Music by Roger Fortney; used by permission. \xa0 ******* O LORD, let us follow where the apostles lead, for they follow in our Savior\u2019s footsteps.\xa0 YHWH, help us to abandon our hearts, to leave our moorings in this world that we might follow your Son, that He might lead us to the shores of Heaven.\xa0 And help us to preach as your apostles have preached, to speak of your salvation to all men, that indeed the message of the Gospel may reach to the ends of the earth and all souls come to believe. O LORD, Jesus has been raised from the dead \u2013 let us believe in our hearts that He lives now and confess with our lips that He is Lord, and by our faith we shall be saved and bring others to redemption.\xa0 The voice of your apostles has indeed gone out to the limits of the world; all peoples are now blessed to hear your Word and so are given the opportunity to believe.\xa0 May all souls turn resolutely to your Son and follow Him in His way. On the shores of Galilee first came the call from the mouth of Jesus.\xa0 May He speak to our hearts, LORD, even this day, that we might leave all for your kingdom.