RB: Ch 66 The Porter of the Monastery
Mass: Rev 21:9b-14; Resp Ps 145; Jn 1:45-51
Saint Bartholomew by Carlo Crivelli
What Jesus says about Bartholomew, known as Nathanael in John's Gospel, intrigues me: 'There is no duplicity in him.' What did Jesus see in Nathanael when Jesus saw him under the fig tree? Was there something in his bearing? What was it about Nathanael's character that was so telling?
O Lord, though you have made the darkness of our ignorance and human blindness the secret place that hides your face, nevertheless your pavilion is round about you, and some of your saints undoubtedly were full of light. They glowed and they gave light because they lived so close to your light and your fire.
(William of St Thierry)
ST BARTHOLOMEW, PRAY FOR US.
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