Today is Thursday, the 24th of August, the feast of Saint Bartholomew.

Stephanie Gretzinger sings, come let us worship and bow down.

Let us kneel before the Lord, I got our Maker, come let us worship and bow down.

Let us kneel before the Lord, I got our Maker, for He is our God.

And we are the people of His Christ here, and the sheep of His hand, just the sheep of His hand.

Let us kneel before the Lord, I got our Maker, come let us worship and bow down.

Let us kneel before the Lord, I got our Maker, come let us worship and bow down.

Let us kneel before the Lord, I got our Maker, for He is our God.

And we are the people of His Christ here, and the sheep of His hand, just the sheep of His hand.

Today's reading is from the book of the Apocalypse.

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, come I will show you the bride, the wife of the lamb.

And in the spirit He carried me away to a great high mountain and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God.

It has the glory of God and a radiance like a very rare jewel like Jasper, clear as crystal.

It has a great high wall with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and on the gates are inscribed the names of the twelve tribes of the Israelites.

On the east three gates, on the north three gates, and on the south three gates, and on the west three gates.

And the wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them are the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the lamb.

Today is the feast of Saint Bartholomew, named as one of the twelve.

Some scholars believe him to be Nathaniel, who was introduced to Jesus by Philip.

Nathaniel had been the one who had first responded, can anything good come from Nazareth?

Distain or prejudice?

Other times when you have been so quick to judge?

There was still something about him that Jesus knew.

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