DAILY GOSPEL Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. John 6:68 Saturday, 27 December 2014 Saint John, apostle and evangelist - Feast Saint(s) of the day : St. John, Apostle and Evangelist (Feast) Duns Scotus Erigena : “What was from the beginning...what we have seen and heard we proclaim in turn to you” (1Jn 1,1-3) First Letter of John 1:1-4. Beloved; what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we looked upon and touched with our hands concerns the Word of life-- for the life was made visible; we have seen it and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was made visible to us-- what we have seen and heard we proclaim now to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; for our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. We are writing this so that our joy may be complete. Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 20:2-8. On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we dont know where they put him. So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in. When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place. Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed. Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB Commentary of the day : Duns Scotus Erigena (?-c.870), Irish Benedictine Homily on the Prologue of Saint John, §2 “What was from the beginning...what we have seen and heard we proclaim in turn to you” (1Jn 1,1-3) Peter and John both run to the tomb. Christs tomb is the Holy Scripture, in which the most hidden mysteries of his divinity and of his humanity are defended - if I might say so -by a wall of rock. But John runs faster than Peter, for the power of a contemplation that has been totally purified penetrates the secrets of the divine works with a more piercing and sharper eye than the power of an action still in need of purification. Nevertheless Peter is the first to enter; John follows. Both run and both enter. Here Peter is the image of faith and John represents intelligence...Faith, then, is the first who must enter the tomb, an image of Holy Scripture, and intelligence must follow... Peter, who also represents the practice of virtues, sees with the power of both faith and action the Son of God enclosed, in a marvellous and ineffable way, in the confines of flesh. John, who represents the sublime contemplation of the truth, admires the Word of God, perfect in himself and infinite in his origin - that is to say in his Father. Peter, led by divine revelation, looks at both eternal and temporal things united in Christ; John contemplates and proclaims the eternity of the Word so as to make it known to the faithful. Therefore I say that John is a spiritual eagle who sees God; I call him ‘theologian’. He is above the whole creation, visible and invisible; he goes beyond all intellectual faculties and he enters deified into God who shares with him his own divine life.
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