To be Instruments of the Reign

The WORD, the SAINT and the ADVENT

November 30, 2022: Remembering St. Andrew, the Apostle
Romans 10: 9-18; Matthew 4: 18-22

St. Andrew repeatedly played a special role during the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. As a disciple of Christ he always had the special role of bringing good news to persons... he brought the good news of having found Christ, to Peter (Jn 1:41); along with Philip, he brought the Greeks to meet Jesus (Jn 12:22); and he brought that boy who gave the five loaves to feed the five thousand (Jn 6:9). He brought Jesus to persons and he brought persons to Jesus! 

This is why, Andrew is today proposed as the patron of social network...because he used every opportunity to connect between persons and Christ - he announced Christ to people and to brought people to Christ. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI described social network as the modern day pulpit and invited us to proclaim Christ not merely from the housetops but also from the laptops... and here we have a great role model for that... St. Andrew, the Apostle. 

This has a special reference to the season of Advent - which is fundamentally a season of not only waiting, but a season of pre-announcement, a season that reminds us of the foretaste. We are called to eagerly long for a foretaste of the Reign that has to reveal itself in its fullness. It is a call to dedicate every effort of ours to proclaim the Reign through all means, including the social network. 

Let us seek, in our contacts with the people, especially the young, to offer a right orientation to the social network, which offers us such a great promise, that it may forever be an instrument in the hands of God to bring God's will to fulfillment, an instrument of the Reign.