Sunday, January 14, 2018

What are you looking for ? Where do you Live?

 Today's Gospel invites us to share the adventure of vocation with two of John the Baptist's disciples. They thought they had found the teacher who would give them the answers they sought.
Then that teacher pointed to another, someone they did not know, and said, "Behold the Lamb of God." John loved them enough that their fulfillment mattered more to him than their companionship. His utter lack of egotism inspired them to try to catch up with Jesus as he walked along. That was when Jesus turned to them and asked the most important question of their life: "What are you looking for?"


 St. Augustine taught that our hearts are restless until they rest in God. That means that the human heart always seeks more until we encounter the source of love. At this first stage, the disciples were at home with their restlessness; they let their desire for more nudge them onto the road behind Jesus.

 "Come and you will see" was the invitation into dialogue. When the Gospel tells us it was around four in the afternoon, the implication is that the two disciples went home with Jesus, ate and spent the evening. We could call this the day of their "first Communion." It was the first time they heard Jesus talk about his vocation, his dreams and his mission. It was the first time they broke bread with him.

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