May 3

hen Philip heard Christ's call he was at once enlightened and he knew who the one calling him really was. But since he was a warm friend of Nathanael, and used to search the law and the prophets with him for sayings about Christ, not to share the treasure he had found with his friend would have been unthinkable. On meeting him, therefore, it was with the greatest joy that he told him of the one they had been looking for. The gospel says: Philip found Nathanael and told him: We have found the one whom Moses wrote about in the law and whom the prophets also wrote about, Jesus the son of Joseph, from Nazareth.

It was as if he had cried out: We need not pore over the sacred books any longer, dear Nathanael, for we have met the one they tell about; we have found him for whom we have so long been searching.

From John E. Rotelle, O.S.A., Tradition Day by Day: Readings from Church Writers. Augustinian Press. Villanova, PA, 1994.

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