John the Evangelist commented on the entrance of the risen Jesus on His disciples who were assembled in the upper room, for fear of the Jews: “Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord” (John 20:20). This is the fruit of Pascha that Jesus offers us to rejoice. We all know that Jesus’ ...
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Gospel of John
Alive in God
I am not a liturgist. However, my conviction is firm that the Great Lent, in its laid down structure, reveals that Pascha, which is the destination of Lent, overshadows all the days of fasting. One of the brethren asked me a few days ago: “the selected Gospels for Sundays during the Great Lent are all ...
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Does this phrase, which was unique to John in his Gospel, mean that Jesus preferred a disciple over the others? You do know that the Apostle John, whom many scholars agree that he concealed himself behind this phrase, uses it, in his Gospel, five times: at the Last Supper (13:23), before the Cross (19:26), when ...
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