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In your heart God has excavated an immense space where he has placed a precious treasure. From now on you have the twofold duty of receiving and giving: sharing the treasure of the kingdom you bear within you and stretching the area of your tent for those around you.
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Anonymous
(Get in touch with that inner treasure, and let it overflow to others this day.)
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1 JN 3:11-21; PS 100:1B-5
JN 1:43-51
Jesus decided to go to Galilee, and he found
Philip.
And Jesus said to him, "Follow me."
Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.
Philip found Nathanael and told him,
"We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the law,
and also the prophets, Jesus, son of Joseph, from Nazareth."
But Nathanael said to him,
"Can anything good come from Nazareth?"
Philip said to him, "Come and see."
Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him,
"Here is
a true child of Israel.
There is no duplicity in him."
Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?"
Jesus answered and said to him,
"Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree."
Nathanael answered him,
"Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the King of Israel."
Jesus answered and said to him,
"Do you believe
because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree?
You will see greater things than
this."
And he said to him, "Amen, amen, I say to you,
you will see the sky opened and the angels of God
ascending and descending on the Son of Man."
USCCB Lectionary
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John 1: 43-51: Jesus, Philip, and Nathanael
The calling of the apostles is one of the most revered of Christian traditions. Today's reading recalls the traditions surrounding the call of Philip and of Nathaneal, probably identified in the other gospels as the
apostle Bartholomew.
* How has God called you to be a follower of Jesus Christ? Who were his instruments? Recall the occasions that were turning points for you.
* How and why did you choose to become involved with the community of which you are now a member? Do you feel open to inviting others to join? Why? Why not?
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God and I: Exploring the Connections between God, Self and Ego, by Philip St. Romain, 2016 (2nd ed.) ____________ Chapter 1: God (excerpts) Theology in the West takes a leap by identifying pure existence with God. When Moses asked the voice in the burning bush its name, the response he was
given was “Yahweh,” meaning “I am that I am” (Exodus 3). What is being affirmed by Moses and those who followed is that existence itself has come forward and addressed one of its creatures to reveal something about itself -- namely that “it” is a “Who.” an “I” who “IS.” As St. Thomas Aquinas noted, the name Yahweh corresponds very closely with the philosophical notion of existence itself. Existence simply is; God is the One Who Is. In both cases, is means the same thing:
unrestricted Being.
Existence is an obvious fact, but to speak of a personal God takes matters into another realm, that of religious faith. It is
faith that opens us to the possibility of encountering a deeper, personal dimension of existence as the Supreme Being and Creator of all existents. This “personal” aspect of existence is not immediately obvious, even by those whose spirituality is focused on a deep appreciation of reality. Some branches of Buddhism, for example, are non-theistic; they neither affirm nor deny the existence of God. They nonetheless have deep appreciation for the oneness of creation and would be most
affirming of the kind of experience I shared in the opening section of this chapter. But they do not relate to existence in the same way that the Hebrews related to Yahweh, for example. Theirs is a different kind of faith, or manner of opening to Ultimate Reality.
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