"Come, follow me"

This is the view from the apse of Canterbury Cathedral looking west. The candle marks the site of St. Thomas Beckett's shrine. Today I will preach to the 250 children and teachers of St. Vincent's school about the calling of SS Peter and Andrew. This put me in mind of the beginning of my own first sense of a calling to follow Jesus in ministry. I had received Holy Baptism at All Saints' Church in Austin on June 3, 1990 and set off immediately afterwards to do historical research in England. During that month I travelled widely on "pilgrimage." One of these journies took me to Canterbury. While kneeling in prayer near the spot shown above I first began to feel a pull in my heart to follow St. Thomas in serving God within His Church. But being literally only a few weeks old in the Faith I soon dismissed this thought as the vain imaginings of a puerile Christian mind. I think of that day often now. May God bless us all, along with St. Andrew, in following after our Lord Jesus Christ.