The
Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us,
and from his fullness we have all received - Jn 1:14,16
and from his fullness we have all received - Jn 1:14,16
(Today's Communion
Antiphon)
"The presence of Jesus in
the tabernacle
must be a kind of magnetic pole attracting
an
ever greater number of souls enamoured of Him,
ready
to wait patiently to hear His voice
and,
as
it were, to sense the beating of His heart.
“O
taste and see that the Lord is good!” (Ps 34:8)."
Mane
Nobiscum Domine (Stay
With Us Lord)
Apostolic
Letter, 10/07/04, Pope St John Paul II
St
John the Beloved Disciple
who sensed the beating of His Heart...
Apostle
and Evangelist
Son
of Zebedee, brother of James
Asia
Minor, Galilee (6-115 AD)
Apostle
of Charity
Patron
of Asia Minor, Theologians
Feast
Day - December 27
Valentin de
boulogne
"It is a long
way from being eager to
sit on a throne of power
or to call down fire from heaven to
becoming the man who could write:
“The way we came to know love was that He
laid down His life for us;
so we ought to lay
down our lives for our brothers” (1 John 3:16).
Through John we know how we
are to participate
as our destiny
in the life of Christ."~ St Teresa
Benedicta (Edith Stein)
O most Sacred, most loving Heart
of Jesus,
Thou
art concealed in the Holy Eucharist, and Thou
beatest
for us still… I worship Thee with all my best love and awe,
with my fervent
affection, with my most subdued, most resolved will.
O my God, when Thou dost condescend
to
suffer me to receive Thee, to eat and drink Thee, and Thou for
a
while takest up Thy abode within me, O make my heart beat with Thy Heart.
Purify it of all that is earthly, all that is proud and sensual, all that is
hard and cruel, of all perversity, of all disorder, of all deadness.
Purify it of all that is earthly, all that is proud and sensual, all that is
hard and cruel, of all perversity, of all disorder, of all deadness.
So fill it with
Thee, that neither the events of the day
nor
the circumstances of the time may have power to ruffle it,
but
that in Thy love and Thy fear it may have peace. Amen.
- Bl
John Henry Newman, Meditations and
Devotions
Part III [XVI] para. 3
The
eagle, believed to look
directly into the light of the sun, is the symbol of St. John. This bird was used because in his Gospel St. John dwells particularly upon the Divinity of the Redeemer and contemplates with the unflinching eye of an eagle the
highest truths.
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