Today is the first day of Advent, as you begin this season you’re invited to reflect on the word ‘Said’. St Andrews said yes in response to Jesus’ call to follow him.
Today is also St Andrew’s Day (transferred from 30th November), the collect for St Andrew (Apostle and Patron of Scotland) is: Almighty God, who gave your apostle Andrew grace to believe in his heart and to confess with his lips that Jesus is Lord: touch our lips and our hearts, that faith may burn within us and we may share in the witness of your Church to the whole human family; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.