"This is an early painting by Ribera executed shortly after his arrival in Naples from Rome. Ribera's early style owes much to what the artist had learned from Caravaggio in Rome."
From the Web Gallery of Art.
As is usual for the feast days of the early saints, Padre Mickey has a wonderful post on St. Andrew.
The good Padre talks about the references to Andrew in the Gospels and Acts, but, as he says, "I read the Acts of Andrew, which is a book which was denounced by the Church Fathers (and by Eusebius), but tells some wild stories about Andrew. I’ve used some stories from the Acts of Andrew for this post, especially the description of Andrew’s martyrdom."
That Padre. He's such a rebel.
In the Orthodox Church, Andrew is known as the Protokletos (the First Called).
READINGS:
Psalm 19 or 19:1-6
Deuteronomy 30:11-14
Romans 10:8b-18
Matthew 4:18-22
PRAYER
Almighty God, who gave such grace to your apostle Andrew that he readily obeyed the call of your Son Jesus Christ, and brought his brother with him: Give unto us, who are called by your Word, grace to follow him without delay, and to bring those near to us into his gracious presence; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Mimi - I keep meaning to leave you a note thanking you for this post. Andrew is my favourite of the apostles because he's always bringing other people to Jesus, and I've always wanted to be like him!
ReplyDeleteA blessed Advent to you. I appreciated your comments about loving enemies over at Mad Preist's today.
Tim, thanks. I was a little lazy with this one, since I know that Padre Mickey loves to do the very early saints and does such a nice job of it with them. You're right. Andrew is a fine example for us in bringing people to Christ.
ReplyDeleteAs for loving our enemies, Jesus seems of one mind about that, so I believe that we must do our best to follow that teaching, and even when we fall short, continue to hold the ideal before us as good and true.