“Come and See” is the simple and beautiful. invitation given to Nathanael in today’s reflection from Mass.
BIBLE READINGS: You can find the readings for a January 5 here (Universalis Website)
The food we like, the football team we support, the sports we follow, the politics we embrace, the values we hold onto, are often influenced by others as we grow up—by our parents and family—and we may never waver from those influences, so embedded are they. Our life is formed by those around us.
So, too, with our faith. Cradle Christians are nurtured within the life of the church, brought up with the Christian faith embedded in our lives, a natural part of who we are. But even when we are older, we continue to be influenced by others. Our own lives are to be beacons of Christ in the world.
In the gospel reading, the good news of Jesus is passed on from one person to another. But there is more. Alongside the message, is an invitation. “Come and See.” Although Nathaniel is unconvinced that anything good can come from Nazareth, he accepts Philip’s invitation and has a living encounter with Jesus that will change his life for ever.
In the first letter of John, we read “Little children, let us not love in word or talk, but in deed and in truth.” We may feel obliged to try to win theological arguments, to try to convince people of what we believe is true or not, but there is no more an effective way of evangelism than to say to someone, “Come and See for yourself.”
Mass today is at St Dyfrig’s and Samson at 630pm
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