Author Topic: St. John before the Latin Gate (Read 411 times)

magdalena · « **on:** May 06, 2015, 05:18:55 AM »

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magdalena · « **Reply #1 on:** May 06, 2015, 05:24:10 AM »

SEQUENCE

The happy realm of grace, (where the King of glory is seen by the soul's unfettered ken,) gives union with his God, and equality with Angels, to John, whose revelations have made known to men the mysteries of heaven.

He drank of the living waters that spring up to life eternal, when he leaned on his Lord's breast. The wonderful miracles he wrought have made him shine as a bright light in the Church. He quenched the heat of the boiling oil.

Men know that the torments for him are cruel beyond measure; yet do they wonder within themselves, how a man can be a Martyr, and feel no pain?

O Martyr, O Virgin, O guardian of the Virgin by whom the world received Him Who is its glory! pray for us to this Jesus, from Whom, and in Whom, and by Whom, are all things.

O thou that wast loved above the rest!--by thine intercession and prayers, render propitious unto us the Jesus, by Whom thou wast loved.

Lead us to the Fountain, thou that art a stream!, Lead us to the Mountain, thou that art a hill! O thou, whom grace made so wholly pure, pray for us that we may see the Beloved. Amen.

magdalena · « **Reply #2 on:** May 06, 2015, 05:38:32 AM »

Reading 4

From the Book against Jovinian written by St Jerome, Priest at Bethlehem.
Bk. 1

The Apostle John was one of the disciples of the Lord. There is a tradition that he was the youngest of the Apostles. He was a virgin when the Faith of Christ found him, and he hath remained a virgin for ever. This is why he was " the disciple whom Jesus loved" more than any of the others, and why he "leaned on Jesus' Breast." When Peter, who had been married, wished to ask the Lord who it was that was about to betray Him, he dared not ask for himself, but beckoned to John, that he should ask it. John xiii. 23, 24. After the Resurrection, when " Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that the Lord was risen, Peter and John ran both together to the sepulchre, but John did outrun Peter." (xx. 2-4.) Later on, when the Apostles were on the Sea of Galilee, in a ship, fishing, "Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus," till virgin knew Virgin, and " that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter It is the Lord."

V. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
R. Thanks be to God.

R. Eternal light will shine over your saints, O Lord,
* And the eternity of the times, alleluia, alleluia.
V. Everlasting joy shall be upon their heads, they shall obtain joy and gladness
R. And the eternity of the times, alleluia, alleluia.

magdalena · « **Reply #3 on:** May 06, 2015, 05:40:07 AM »

Reading 5

John was both an Apostle, and an Evangelist, and a Prophet. He was an Apostle, in that he wrote to the Churches, as their Teacher. He was an Evangelist, in that he wrote one of the Gospels, the like whereto was not done by any other of the twelve Apostles, save Matthew. He was a Prophet, in that when he was in the isle of Patmos, whither he had been banished by Domitian on account of his uplifting of his testimony for the Lord, he saw there that Apocalypse which containeth such unfathomable mysteries concerning " things which shall be hereafter." Apoc. i. 19. Tertullian also saith that when he was at Rome, he was put into a vessel of boiling oil, but that he came out cleaner and healthier than he went in.

V. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
R. Thanks be to God.

R. With great power did the Apostles
* Give testimony of the resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord, alleluia, alleluia.
V. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost: and they spoke the word of God with confidence.
R. Give testimony of the resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord, alleluia, alleluia.

magdalena · « **Reply #4 on:** May 06, 2015, 05:41:42 AM »

Reading 6

There is a great difference between his Gospel and the three others. Matthew beginneth to write as of a man " The Book of the Generation of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the son of Abraham." Luke's first words of history relate to the priesthood of Zacharias Mark commenceth with the prophecies of Malachi and Isaiah. The first hath the face of a man, with an human genealogy the second hath the face of a calf, being a victim offered by priests the third hath the face of a lion, even " the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His paths straight " but the John of whom I write is like a flying eagle, Apoc. iv. 7, whose kingly flight beareth him up above earth-gathered clouds, an eagle that wingeth his way toward the Father Himself, and which crieth: " In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

V. But thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.
R. Thanks be to God.

R. These are the young lambs, who were promised, they are just coming to the fountains.
* They are filled with glory, alleluia, alleluia.
V. in sight of the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.
R. They are filled with glory, alleluia, alleluia.
V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, * and to the Holy Ghost.
R. They are filled with glory, alleluia, alleluia.