Why Did God Become Man? The Feast of St. John the Evangelist. (Rebroadcast)

Blessed Meditations

December 27, 2024. Gospel Passages: John 20:1a and 2-8; Luke 5:1-11; Luke 9:49-56; John 1:14; Mark 15:40-41; Luke 2:25-35; John 19:25; Luke 2:14; John 3:16. Also quoting from "A Spiritual Canticle of St John of the Cross, priest" in the Office of Readings, December 14 in https://www.liturgies.net/saints/johnofthecross/readings.htm Meditation with Fr. Eric Nicolai, guest priest, recorded at Ernescliff College, Toronto in 2021 on "In Your Presence" on Spotify. Image: "The Disciples Peter and John Running to the Tomb on the Morning of the Resurrection" by Eugène Burnand. (Wikimedia Commons) Music: Recordações do passado (Souvenirs from the Past) a Valsa for piano (1885) by Ernesto Nazareth arranged by Bert Alink. Priest's Note: John was a native of Bethsaida, a town of Galilee on the northern shore of the Sea of Tiberias. His parents were Zebedee and Salome, and his brother James the Greater. The words of John the Evangelist, whose feast we celebrate today, resound in our hearts: "Et Verbum caro factum est - the Word became flesh and dwelt among us" (John 1: 14). Meditation with Fr. Eric Nicolai, guest priest from Kintore College, Toronto on "In Your Presence" Spotify. Image: "St. John and St. Peter at Christ’s Tomb" by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California (Wikimedia Commons).