The Gospel today shows us four fishermen by the Sea of Galilee. Christ walks past, calls them, and they leave their nets immediately.
What strikes me — what strikes the Fathers — is how little time they take. There is no conversation. There is no condition. There is no negotiation about pension or hours. Christ says follow me, and they do.
We are slower. We say: let me first — and the Gospel records, even from the men who walked with the Lord, a long list of let me firsts. But the call has not changed since that morning on the Galilean shore. Christ walks past us each Liturgy. Each Confession. Each Eucharist.
Will we leave the net today?