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Saturdays 3:00 - 3:45PM, Terms & Conditions | © 2020 St. Andrew the Apostle Roman Catholic ChurchWeb Development by High Level Thinkers. View the Site . PLEASE BE ATTENTIVE TO THE SEATING RESTRICTIONS, sitting only in pews that are not taped off and at least 6 feet from anyone else in the pew – the exception being that you can sit in closer proximity to the people you came with (i.e. grecaptcha.execute( }; According to the New Testament, Andrew was born in the village of Bethsaida on the Sea of Galilee during the early first century. A much later work added that he preached in regions surrounding the Black Sea. Please click on the link below and complete the Google Form to help us determine the best way to move forward with Faith Formation for the 2020-2021 Catechetical Year. We have resumed our regular daily and weekend Mass Schedule. var wc_add_to_cart_params = {"ajax_url":"\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php","wc_ajax_url":"\/?wc-ajax=%%endpoint%%","i18n_view_cart":"View cart","cart_url":"https:\/\/standrewparish.net\/cart\/","is_cart":"","cart_redirect_after_add":"no"}; var wpcf7recaptcha = { St. Andrew, also known as Andrew the Apostle, was a Christian Apostle and the older brother to St. Peter. In The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary, he draws parallels between Andrew and Odysseus, and Acts of Andrew and The Odyssey: “He once was a fisherman, he had brought Greeks to Jesus, and his very name resonated with the Greek word for courage (andreia). Andrew is Andreas in Greek, coming from the root word aner or andros, meaning “man.” The name is related to andreia, meaning “courage,” and it’s most often defined as “manly.” That’s a strange way to describe a baby, if you ask me. );

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Click here to view this Mass on our YouTube channel Click here to view the program for the Mass. Photo Gallery. It was about four in the afternoon.Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus. New Testament scholar Dennis MacDonald suggests that Acts of Andrew was a blatant attempt to “Christianize” Homer’s The Odyssey. wpcf7recaptcha.executeOnHomepage, false In the sixth century, Gregory of Tours (a bishop and historian) crafted a revised version of Acts of Andrew, believing that its “excessive verbosity” was the reason it was considered apocryphal. View Our Masses Online. We have set up the portal below to allow you to give what you can in order to help our parish continue its mission during this time. var fields = document.querySelectorAll( ).then( function( token ) {

Much like his younger brother, Simon Peter, Andrew was also a fisherman.