Fr Paul Gooley reads from the Gospel of (Matthew 4: 18-22) in which Jesus calls his first disciples, saying, ‘Follow me and I will make you fishers of men’ and they left their nets at once and followed him. Afterwards, Fr Paul shares a little about the life of St Andrew whose feast we celebrate today.

Fr Paul notes Andrew was born in Bethsaida, in Galilee, and worked as a fisherman. He may have been a disciple of St John the Baptist. He became one of the first to follow Jesus and introduced his brother, Simon Peter, to him. As one of the twelve Apostles he was widely venerated in ancient times, and became patron saint of Scotland because, according to legend, some of his bones were brought there and buried at the place where the town of St Andrew’s now stands.

So today, Fr Paul invites us to ask, ‘St Andrew…pray for us!’