Today is the Feast of St. Andrew the First-Called.  The following prayer is for your use today, to celebrate the Apostle who was the first to answer Jesus’ call without hesitation.  May it be so with us!

First-Called Apostle of our God and Savior Jesus Christ, first-called follower of the Church, most praiseworthy Andrew!  We honor and glorify your Apostolic labors, we lovingly commemorate your blessed coming to us, we remember and revere your honorable sufferings by crucifixion, which your beared for Christ; we venerate your sacred relics, we honor your holy memory, and firmly believe that the Lord lives and that your soul lives as well.  You remain with him for all ages in heaven, where you have the same love for us as when you, in the Holy Spirit, foresaw our conversion to Christ. You not only love us, but pray also for us unto God, seeing all our needs in His light. Thus we believe and in our faith we confess, O Saint Andrew, blessed Apostle of the Lord,  we ask and pray our Lord, God and Saviour Jesus Christ that by your prayers, always heard and accepted by Him, He may grant us sinners all those things needful unto our salvation and holiness. As you, according to the Lord’s voice, promptly left your nets and followed him unwaveringly, may each of us seek not that which is for ourselves, but think rather of the care and consolation of our neighbor and may support our neighbor’s higher spiritual calling.  And, having you as a representative and intercessor, we have hope in your prayers, which avail much before our Lord Jesus Christ, to Whom belongs all glory, honor and worship, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, unto ages of ages. Amen!