Weekend Edition - A Daily Spiritual Seed
Published: Fri, 12/23/11
A Daily Spiritual Seed
Weekend Edition:
December 23-25, 2011
| Dear Subscribers, We will have an abbreviated version of Weekend Edition this week and next . Wishing you a merry Christmas. Peace, Phil - - - Contents: - Weekend Scripture Readings - Spiritual Guidance - Discussion Board highlights - Affiliate Web Sites - Saint of the Week - - - Sunday: Is 52:7-10; Ps 98:1-6; Heb 1:1-6; Jn 1:1-18 R. (3c)All the ends of the earth have seen the saving power of God.  Sing to the LORD a new song,for he has done wondrous deeds; his right hand has won victory for him, his holy arm. The LORD has made his salvation known: in the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice. He has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation by our God. Sing joyfully to the LORD, all you lands; break into song; sing praise. Sing praise to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and melodious song. With trumpets and the sound of the horn sing joyfully before the King, the LORD. - - - Amazon
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Rudder: "In the midst of Consecrated Silence'
atmospherics ... a Rudder! Saint of the Week - http://www.americancatholic.org/features/saints/saint.aspx?id=1242 St. John the Apostle: December 27  It is God who calls; human beings
answer. The vocation of John and his brother James is stated very
simply in the Gospels, along with that of Peter and his brother Andrew:
Jesus called them; they followed. The absoluteness of their response is
indicated by the account. James and John "were in a boat, with their
father Zebedee, mending their nets. He called them, and immediately
they left their boat and their father and followed him" (Matthew
4:21b-22).For the three former fishermen--Peter, James and John--that faith was to be rewarded by a special friendship with Jesus. They alone were privileged to be present at the Transfiguration, the raising of the daughter of Jairus and the agony in Gethsemane. But John's friendship was even more special. Tradition assigns to him the Fourth Gospel, although most modern Scripture scholars think it unlikely that the apostle and the evangelist are the same person. John's own Gospel refers to him as "the disciple whom Jesus loved" (see John 13:23; 19:26; 20:2), the one who reclined next to Jesus at the Last Supper, and the one to whom he gave the exquisite honor, as he stood beneath the cross, of caring for his mother. "Woman, behold your son.... Behold, your mother" (John 19:26b, 27b). . . John was with Peter when the first great miracle after the Resurrection took place--the cure of the man crippled from birth--which led to their spending the night in jail together. The mysterious experience of the Resurrection is perhaps best contained in the words of Acts: "Observing the boldness of Peter and John and perceiving them to be uneducated, ordinary men, they [the questioners] were amazed, and they recognized them as the companions of Jesus" (Acts 4:13). The Apostle John is traditionally considered the author of the Fourth Gospel, three New Testament letters and the Book of Revelation. His Gospel is a very personal account. He sees the glorious and divine Jesus already in the incidents of his mortal life. At the Last Supper, John's Jesus speaks as if he were already in heaven. It is the Gospel of Jesus' glory. A persistent story has it that John's "parishioners" grew tired of his one sermon, which relentlessly emphasized: "Love one another." Whether the story is true or not, it has basis in John's writing. He wrote what may be called a summary of the Bible: "We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us. God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him" (1 John 4:16). |
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