The gospel minister is like the fisherman with a net. I have sometimes heard the comparison drawn as though the gospel fisherman had a hook and a l…

Glossa Ordinaria: The Evangelist, having mentioned Christ’s preaching to the multitude, now moves on to the calling of the dis…

Mark says nothing of a previous encounter of these two disciples with Jesus (cf. Jn 1:35-42). Rather, Jesus called Simon and Andrew to the urgent t…

And straightway they forsook their nets
Which perhaps were their all; see (Matthew 19:27) .