24 Aug 2022
Come and See
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For 24 August 2022, Feast of Saint Bartholomew, Apostle, based on John 1:45-51
Philip found Nathanael and said to him, ‘We have found him about whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth.’ Nathanael said to him, ‘Can anything good come out of Nazareth?’ Philip said to him, ‘Come and see.’ When Jesus saw Nathanael coming towards him, he said of him, ‘Here is truly an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!’ Nathanael asked him, ‘Where did you come to know me?’ Jesus answered, ‘I saw you under the fig tree before Philip called you.’ Nathanael replied, ‘Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!’ Jesus answered, ‘Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than these.’ And he said to him, ‘Very truly, I tell you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.’
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
24 August 2022 @ 5:31 am
Dear Judith Anne, Thank you for your powerful homily today. I loved the stairway to heaven image. These are usually just words we slide over, and yet we need to stop and let them sink in – it is after all where we are headed! We need to think about this as we think of the suffering of the Ukrainians, they are a people of faith themselves and need to know their stairway is leading up to heaven!
Love Nick
30 August 2022 @ 8:37 pm
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful post with us.