Andrew the Apostle

As always, I am your host and humble narrator, Buck Johnson, coming to you out of Lockhart, Texas.

And for the first time on this show, this episode is coming to you out of my parish here in Lockhart, Texas, St. Andrew's ROCOR Orthodox Church here in Lockhart, Texas, just off the square in downtown historic beautiful Lockhart, the barbecue capital of the world, where I reached out to this priest, an amazing man, an amazing priest, Father Justin Havens.

After I saw him give a talk down in San Antonio on Orthodox marriage, I thought, "Why have I never covered that topic on this show? Father, would you come on this show and so we can cover the themes that you discussed in the talk I saw you give?" Basically, he said, "Long story short, I don't like Zoom.

I don't wanna do Zoom.

The wounds of Jesus Christ, says St. Bonaventure, wound the hardest hearts, and inflame frozen souls.

O if you knew the mystery of the cross, says St. Andrew the Apostle, to the tyrant by whom he was tempted to deny Jesus Christ.

O tyrant, if you knew the love which your Saviour has shown you by dying on the cross for your salvation, instead of tempting me you would abandon all the goods of this earth to give yourself to the love of Jesus Christ.

I conclude, my most beloved brethren, by recommending you henceforth to meditate every day on the passion of Jesus Christ.

Mother Maria Ignazia Isacchi, founder of the Ursuline Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Azula, was beatified in the Italian city of Mantua on October 10.

Cardinal Marcello Semerato, prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, presided at the Mass in the co-cathedral of St. Andrew the Apostle.

In his homily, the Cardinal described her as a radiant witness to Christ who allowed the Gospel to transform her daily life.

Her religious vocation took shape within her family and developed among the Ursuline sisters of Somasca, where she nurtured the faith of girls through education.

Job 22.

But the Lord has fixed a day, called in the Scriptures, the day of the Lord, on which the eternal Judge will make known his power and majesty.

The Lord, says the Psalmist, shall be known when he executeth judgment.

On this text St. Bernard writes, The Lord who is now unknown while he seeks mercy, shall be known when he seeks justice.

The prophet Sophonius calls the day of the Lord a day of wrath, a day of tribulation and distress, a day of calamity and misery.

Let us now consider on the first point, the different appearance of the just and the unjust, in the second the scrutiny of consciences, and in the third the sentence pronounced on the elect and on the reprobate.

First point, on the different appearance of the just and of sinners, in the valley of Jehoshaphat.

Peter of Alicantra, after death to St. Teresa.

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... uh, so that each bishop can trace their lineage back to Saint Andrew or Saint Peter or one of the apostles.

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So it's a very old, very traditional faith.

The saints already in heaven did.

Number six, the apostle Andrew did.

John 1.42, and he brought him to Jesus.

A reason that I believe it's rudimentary to reach sinners is the apostle Andrew did.

Andrew brought his brother, Simon, to Jesus.

In fact, every time you find Andrew in the New Testament, Andrew in the four gospels, he's bringing someone or something to the Savior.

The best family members oh my, are the ones that get their family to him.

You see, a reason I believe in screen door evangelism, and I don't care if it hair lips every stray dog in the county, is the apostle Andrew did.