"Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men."
What a splendid catch of our Savior's! Wonder at the disciples' faith and obedience. As you know, fishing demands undisturbed concentration and yet, right in the middle of their work, they hear Jesus' call and don't hesitate for a moment. They don't say: "Let's go back home for a word with our relatives." No, they leave everything and follow him as Elisha did with Elijah (1Kgs 19,20). This is the kind of obedience Christ asks of us: no hesitation even if apparently more urgent requirements are pressing us. That is why, when a young man who wanted to follow him asked whether he might go to bury his father, he didn't allow him to do so (Mt 8,21). To follow Jesus and obey his word is a duty that comes before all else.
Perhaps you will tell me that the promises he made them were very great? That is precisely why I admire them so much: even when they hadn't yet seen any miracles, they believed in that very great promise and forsook everything to follow him! It was because they believed that, by means of the same words with which they themselves had been caught, they could go out fishing for others.