Monday,
8/24/15
Today
we honor Bartholomew, one of Our Lord’s apostles. The name Bartholomew means
Son of Ptolemy. His given name was Nathaniel, and he is called that in today’s
Gospel.
Jesus
left his home in Nazareth, and went to be baptized by John in the Jordan. The
next day, when John pointed him out as the Lamb of God, two followers of John
the Baptist, Andrew and John. Came up from the river; and they followed Jesus
at a distance. When he turned, asking them what they were looking for, they
asked him where he was staying. He told them to come, so they stayed with him
that night.
The
next day Andrew went and got his brother Simon, telling him they had found the
Messiah. When Simon came to him, Jesus changed his name to Peter. The young men
then rounded up their fellow
fisherman Phillip, and he went to tell Nathaniel that they had found the
Messiah.
Nathaniel,
relaxing under a fig tree, had been praying, talking with God. When Phillip
identified the Messiah as Jesus of Nazareth, Nathaniel asked, “Can any good
come out of Nazareth?”
Still,
he followed Phillip, and when Jesus saw him, he said, “Behold a true Israelite
in whom there is no guile.”
Nathaniel
asked Jesus how he knew him, and Jesus said, “I saw you under the fig tree
before Phillip called you.”
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