Follow me! Christ's call shook me; it came as an authoritative summons that gave meaning to all the longings and ambitions of my heart.

When called, someone may have been young, with his whole life before him, like James and John; or he may already have had experience of life, like Simon and Matthew. But in either case, the person realized that he had a long voyage ahead of him, a new life, a divine adventure: “Put out into the deep.”

Just as the fermentation of new wine causes old vessels to burst, so too the Gospel spirit bursts through prejudices and cowardly conformity, routine, because the apostle, rescued by Jesus, has found the purpose of his life.