free oh god who through the blasted apostle john have unlocked for us the secrets of your war craft we pray that we make crafts with proper understanding what he has so marvelously brought to our ear through our lord jesus christ your son who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the holy spirit one god forever and ever amen he reading from the beginning of the st letter of see john 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 testified to it and proclaim to the turn a 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 the word of the lord around justice and judgment are the foundation of his throne rejoice in the lord you just the mountains melt like wax before the lord before the lord of all the earth and the heavens proclaim his justice and all peoples see his glory rejoice in the lord you just light dawns for the just and gladness for the upright of heart be glad in the lord you just give thanks on the st day of the week mary magdalen ran and went to simon peter and to the other disciple him jesus love and told that 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 turn they both ran but the other disciple ran faster than peter  tomb st he bent down and saw the burial kloster there but did not go in when simon peter arrived after him and he went into the tomb and saw the there and the cloth and it covered his head and not with the burial costs but rolled up in a separate place then the other disciple also went in the one who had lord we turn on this day the feast of st john the apostle the great gospel writer of the th gospel we turn to two days after christmas to the scene of the resurrection  to it especially to hear those last words the other disciple here is john and we are reminded of the witness value the testimony of these gospels our whole fa believed we are to live off whole lives in a sense in that truth even coming into a church we see him lifted up in the eucharist and we believe this gospel writer john we all so much to him did you ever think how poor in a way we would be without the th gospel or if you have not discovered that and in life read the gospel of john effected my whole life afterwards there's some much richness in the gospel of john he will speak of the eucharist so you're receiving him today this is true fl in the beginning was the word and the word was god and the word became flesh and dwelt amongst us the reality of seeing go hearing god himself speak to us in the words of jesus christ's perhaps a last thought to let us remember john is the only one of the twelve who will go to the foot of the cross and he will be there for those three hours of jesus in agony on the cross and john will recounted how jesus near his death will say to john behold your mother and to mary behold your son we all have to try at some point in our lives to be with john there to hear those words also be hold your mother to let that affect us at the foot of the cross the greatness of john might be there he went to the foot of the cross and allowed himself to be affected by that for the remaining years of his life let that be true also of us to receive our mother at the foot of the cross to gaze on the face of jesus the love of god present in that face bless that are you lord god of all creation for the three of goodness we have received the bread we offer you go to the earth and work in human hands will become for us the bread of life blessed to be god forever praise if i sacrifice in yours may be acceptable to god the almighty father may the lord except to face at your hands to the present gloriously for our good and the good of all his holy church sanctify the are indeed holy oh boys and all you have created rightly give she prayed for through your son all the lord jesus christ by the power in the working of the holy spirit you give life to waltz things and is my body which will be given off for you will to reconcile us to yourself grant that we are nourished by the body and blood of your son and filled with his holy spirit may become one body and one spirit and cri him and with him and in him oh god almighty father in the unity of the holy spirit all glory and honor it's yours forever and ever the whole i'm of god be told him who takes away the sense of the world plus the dagoes call of the supper of my own blood i am not worthy that you should enter under my roof but only say the word and my so number three hundred and eighty seven hark the herald angels sing