Today’s Gospel begins as Jesus starts to travel to Galilee.  However, Jesus became distracted when He sees Philip.  Jesus approached Philip, looked intently at him and said: “Follow me.”  

Philip then went to Nathanael and told him: “We have found the one about whom Moses spoke in the law and the prophets: Jesus the son of Joseph.  Nathanael was not at all impressed with Philip’s report,  responding  by asking: “Can anything good come from Nazareth?”  However, Philip stood his ground and said: “Come, see for yourself.” 

As Nathanael approached the place where Jesus was: Jesus saw him coming toward Him and He said: “This man is a true Israelite!  There is no guile in him.” In response Nathanael asked Jesus: “How do you know me?  Jesus replied: “I saw you under the fig tree”.  Immediately Nathanael said to Jesus: “Rabbi, you are the Son of God. You are the king of Israel.” Then Jesus questioned him, “Do you believe simply because I saw you under the fig tree?  You will see much greater things than that”!  

Can  we remember the moment when  we  recognized Jesus as the Son of God for the first time?   Did we  immediately open our hearts to Jesus?  Or did we  have doubts about what we  were experiencing?  Did we experience Jesus’ great love for us?

Today Jesus will call us again and again.  Will we hear His call?  Or will  we  be so absorbed in our own doings  that we  will not realize that Jesus is calling us ? 

Today and every day, we are called by Jesus!  Let us pray that each day we  will hear and respond to Jesus’ loving call!

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