September 21, 2024: Feast of St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist

God has called each of us to His mission, and we fulfill it in different ways.

Indeed, God calls people from all walks of life.  He saw St. Matthew at the tax booth, not as someone working against the Jewish people, but as someone with the potential to be transformed by God's power, so Jesus called Him. Matthew recognized that power, so he left his tax collector work and followed Jesus. 

Matthew entered a new way of life by which he would be transformed to proclaim the reality of God present among us in the Flesh, as heralded by the prophets, and working in us through the power of death and resurrection to be more like God.