27/12/2022

John as a saint is still filled with the love of God. He knew Jesus on earth and had spent three years wandering through Palestine as a disciple known to have been especially favoured by the Lord. That devotion to the Love that comes from God is what sets his Gospel out from the others. The genealogies of Luke and Matthew emphasise the humanity of the risen Lord but John proclaims the Glory of God who in the "Beginning" knew his own Being, the Word and Love that is the Holy Spirit.

For God there is no beginning or end or time of any sort. John knows that the history recorded in the Scriptures is eternally present for the Father and so "the Beginning" is of the revelation in human time. The human "Beginning" is in his race to the empty tomb. Peter enters first although John gave precedence to him. There is nothing there. Why were they racing through the garden? The Lord had first shown himself to Mary Magdalene and it was to confirm her words that they raced for without their Lord they were nothing We too are nothing without Grace that the babe in the manager has won on the planks of the tree on Calvary.

We can only be in the Love that is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Dear Lord, Covid 19 is part of your creation but it has knocked me out for the last few says. Today I begin to feel better and can again attend to the mass readings knowing that excuses are useless and that I have to rely on your Mercy. May Mary who taught what she knew of you to John continue to pray for the purification of  your gift to Peter and let all in Purgatory and on Earth come finally to be what you have created us to be.