A New Creation
Beyond Week 1
And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
Now, we could have covered so many more items in our meditations of Saint John’s gospel. For he is a master storyteller, illumed by the holy Spirit to record the stories of our divine Savior in ways that would grant us an eternity of meditations on the life, love, and grandeur of our great God.
The rest of Saint John’s gospel enters into a different telling of time until it comes to its conclusion, the last week of Jesus’s life, his Passion, the coming of the hour which we briefly reviewed last chapter. And if God wills, maybe there will be a future book on the subsequent passages of John. For, our bible study continues to gather to imbibe God’s book and good bourbon as we contemplate heavenly mysteries.
But, in case that is not to be, the remaining chapters of John enter into time via the Jewish feasts popular of that time. John tells us of Passover, of the feast of Tabernacles, the celebration of Hannukah, and ends his gospel telling us about the last week in the life of Christ, the passion of our Lord that is capped with the resurrection and return of our king.
Either way, dear Reader, we thank you for reading thus far and hope you can return to the writings of Saint John the Beloved with renewed awe and majesty at the glory of our Savior, the beauty of his mother, the foundations of the Church, the proclamations of the gospel, and the growing majesty of the holy bride of our Savior. What depth, what beauty!