These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.

MONDAY, WEEK ADVENT I—Saint Andrew, Apostle, November 30

For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
But how can they call on him in whom they have not believed?
And how can they believe in him of whom they have not heard?
And how can they hear without someone to preach?
And how can people preach unless they are sent?
As it is written,
How beautiful are the feet of those who bring the good news!
  (Rom 10:13-15)

Today is the Feast of Saint Andrew, the brother of Saint Peter. As Saint Paul asks in his Letter to the Romans, “How can people preach unless they are sent?” The word “apostle” means “one who is sent out.” Andrew, like his brother Peter, was sent out to proclaim the good news of God’s unconditional love. What beautiful feet!