BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:PUBLISH
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
PRODID:-//WordPress - MECv7.34.2//EN
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.southernlcms.org/
X-WR-CALNAME:Southern District of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
X-WR-CALDESC:LCMS Southern District
X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Chicago
X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0600
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:CDT
DTSTART:20260308T030000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=03;BYDAY=2SU
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0600
TZNAME:CST
DTSTART:20261101T010000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE
BEGIN:VEVENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
UID:MEC-470340e5b081f2e3653ec93a36ba5784@southernlcms.org
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231130T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231201T000000
DTSTAMP:20231227T112715Z
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
CREATED:20231227
LAST-MODIFIED:20240116
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:2
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SUMMARY:St. Andrew, Apostle
DESCRIPTION:Ezekiel 3:16–21\nRomans 10:8b–18\nJohn 1:35–42a\nSt. Andrew, Apostle\nThe old church year ends with the watchman’s cry (Matt. 25:6), and the new one begins with it (Ezek. 3:17): John the Baptist’s call of warning and repentance, which St. Andrew heard and heeded. But John’s forerunning task was chiefly to point his disciples to Jesus, “the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29, 36). Thus, Andrew became the first of Christ’s disciples. He, in turn, pointed his brother Simon Peter to the Messiah (John 1:41), and “immediately they left their nets and followed” the Christ (Matt. 4:20). “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news” (Rom. 10:15). Andrew’s eagerness to follow Christ and bring others to Him made “no distinction between Jew and Greek” (Rom. 10:12; John 12:20–22), and he may be counted as the first missionary. His zeal in following Christ led him, according to tradition, to face a martyr’s death on an X-shaped cross. So we are directed at the beginning of Advent to focus our eyes on Christ’s cross, where God’s Lamb was offered for our salvation\n
URL:https://www.southernlcms.org/events/st-andrew-apostle/
CATEGORIES:Church Year,Feasts, Festivals, and Occasions
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR