The Fellowship of St. Columbanus

I Samuel 3:3-10, 19 St John 1:35-42 When St. John the Baptist tells the two disciples that Christ is the Lamb of God, they immediately turn aside to follow him, but their first question to him surprises us. They could have asked "Are you the one who is coming?" (Matt. 11:3), they could have asked "Art thou the Christ, son of the Blessed?" (Mrk. 14:61), or else "What shall I do to inherit eternal life?" (Lk. 18:18), or "What shall we do that we might work the works of God?" (Jhn. 6:28) or even something more practical like, "how shall we pray?" (Lk. 11:1) God calls Samuel while he dwells in the Temple These are the sorts of questions that people usually ask Christ in the Gospels, and for obvious reasons. So we should be taken off guard when Andrew and the other disciple ask "Where are you dwelling?" But on reflection, we shouldn't be surprised. St. John began the chapter by making this same point, "And the Wor