Today Lord Jesus we remember Your Apostle St John, whom by Your Grace and love is a great inspiration for all of us to enter into a deeper and meaningful relationship with You, our heavenly Father and the Holy Spirit.
With a childlike innocence and simplicity of heart filled with love for You. He led an exemplary humble life of service, showing great love and reverence for You. He also showed love and respect for Your vicar our first pope St Peter. It is apparent why you chose to entrust Your mother into his care.
By his example may we plunge into the deepest ocean of God’s love so that we too may hope to gain intimate knowledge, wisdom of You entering into greater depths of an everlasting relationship with You our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen
FIRST READING
1 John 1:1–4
GOSPEL
John 20:1a and 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 do not 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.
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