Please click December 27 We all read together Feast of St. John, Apostle and Evangelist
St. John is next to St. Stephen in his love of Christ, the only apostle to stand at the foot of the cross.
Why do we all read St. John on December 27 after St. Stephen, the First Martyr on December 26? Interesting I found out today after reading real awesome elaboration of St. John because of St. Andrew Daily Missal Reading:
First of all, some commentators have pointed out St. John’s emphasis on the divinity of Christ in his Gospel as being an apt reason for celebrating him in the Christmas octave.
The St. Andrew Daily Missal makes this point in its description of the feast.
It is God whom we adore at Bethlehem during Christmas time. Thus it was natural that St. John, the chief evangelist of the divinity of Christ, should be found beside the crib, to disclose the greatness of the Infant who reposes therein. 👏🙏💜🕊️
Please click: Why St. John the Evangelist is celebrated after Christmas also please click Why is December 27 the feast of St. John the Evangelist? 🙏💜🕊️
Today is December 27: The Feast Day of St. John the Evangelist after Christ’s Mass (Christmas). We all always read Christmas Octave: Since at least the fourth century, Christians have celebrated the most important liturgical feasts with “octaves” — eight days of celebration. Christmas has been celebrated as an octave since at least the seventh century, and is today one of two octaves celebrated by the Church — the other is Easter.
We all see word “octave” comes from a Latin root meaning “eight”. Clarifies means The eighth day is referred to as either the “octave” or “octave day”. Interesting?
Deep interesting read two articles about “the eighth day” regarding Old Testament and New Testament.
Please click on The Octave of Christmas: What is Is and Why We Celebrate it
Read ETWN St. John and Catholic.org about St. John the Evangelist
Read St. John and his background
Excellent Catholic Copy of The Armor of God:
SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST.
APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST.
(c. 6 AD – c. 100 AD)
St. John, the Evangelist, who is styled in the Gospel, “the beloved disciple”, was a Galilean, son of Zebedee and Salome, and brother to St. James the Greater, both of whom were fishermen. The two were called by Jesus to be disciples as they were mending their nets by the Sea of Galilee.
Jesus showed St. John particular instances of kindness and affection above all the rest. He had the happiness to be present with Peter and James at the Transfiguration of Christ, and was permitted to witness His agony in the Garden. He was allowed to rest on Our Savior’s bosom at the Last Supper, and to him Jesus confided the care of His holy Mother as He hung dying on the Cross.
St. John was the only one of the Apostles who did not forsake the Savior in the hour of His Passion and Death.
It seems that St. John remained for a long time in Jerusalem, but that his later years were spent at Ephesus, whence he founded many churches in Asia Minor. St. John wrote his Gospel after the other Evangelists, about sixty-three years after the Ascension of Christ; also three Epistles, and the wonderful and mysterious Book of the Apocalypse or Revelation. He was brought to Rome and, according to tradition, was cast into a caldron of boiling oil by order of Emperor Domitian. Like the Three Children in the fiery furnace of Babylon, he was miraculously preserved unhurt.
He was later exiled to the Island of Patmos, where he wrote the Apocalypse, but afterwards returned to Ephesus.
In his extreme old age he continued to visit the churches of Asia. St. Jerome relates that when age and weakness grew upon him so that he was no longer able to preach to the people, he would be carried to the assembly of the faithful by his disciples, with great difficulty; and every time said to his flock only these words: “My dear children, love one another.”
St. John died in peace at Ephesus in the third year of Trajan (as seems to be gathered from Eusebius’ history of the Saint); that is, the hundredth of the Christian era, or the sixty-sixth from the crucifixion of Christ, St. John then being about ninety-four years old, according to St. Epiphanus.
- Excerpted from Heavenly Friends, St. Paul Editions
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PRAYER: O God, who through the blessed Apostle John have unlocked for us the secrets of your Word, grant, we pray, that we may grasp with proper understanding what he has so marvelously brought to our ears. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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