Have you really found Jesus in your own life? If you have then you know the joy and the excitement of the disciples Gospel. For just like them you will be eager to share the news of your encounter and bring others to Him.
For encountering our Lord and Saviour is a breath of fresh air, a light that swallows up the pitch darkness of our minds and hearts! It is as though we had never truly lived until we have lived through and with Him. Free from all guilt and shame! Filled with the confidence that we can no longer sin for we have become children of the light of God our Heavenly Father through Jesus!
Let us choose then sisters and brothers, to take the narrow path; carry up our cross and follow after Him. For we had come, seen and believed. Amen
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First reading
1 John 3:7-10 ·
No-one sins who has been begotten by God
My children, do not let anyone lead you astray:
to live a holy life is to be holy just as he is holy;
to lead a sinful life is to belong to the devil,
since the devil was a sinner from the beginning.
It was to undo all that the devil has done that the Son of God appeared.
No one who has been begotten by God sins;
because God’s seed remains inside him, he cannot sin when he has been begotten by God.
In this way we distinguish the children of God from the children of the devil:
anybody not living a holy life and not loving his brother is no child of God’s.
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Gospel
John 1:35-42
‘We have found the Messiah’
As John stood with two of his disciples, Jesus passed, and John stared hard at him and said, ‘Look, there is the lamb of God.’ Hearing this, the two disciples followed Jesus. Jesus turned round, saw them following and said, ‘What do you want?’ They answered, ‘Rabbi,’ – which means Teacher – ‘where do you live?’ ‘Come and see’ he replied; so they went and saw where he lived, and stayed with him the rest of that day. It was about the tenth hour.
One of these two who became followers of Jesus after hearing what John had said was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter. Early next morning, Andrew met his brother and said to him, ‘We have found the Messiah’ – which means the Christ – and he took Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked hard at him and said, ‘You are Simon son of John; you are to be called Cephas’ – meaning Rock.
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