St. John's Gospel and Letters ~ through holy cards: February 2011

Thursday, February 10, 2011

John 10:3 and John 10:9

Lord, open to me the holy house that your love has prepared for me.
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Note: The word bercail means sheepfold, so the meaning is perhaps more intimate, more like home than house; it is referring of course to the church, the Body of Christ. Also there is a small printing error in the card ~ ma should have been m'a.
I love the card because it recalls the promises in John 10 that Jesus is both the shepherd and the door. He is the true shepherd to whom the doorkeeper opens the door (John 10:3). He is also the door itself (John 10:9).

Monday, February 7, 2011

John 10:15

I give my life for my sheep. John 10:15
Bousse Lebel, Paris

John 13:6-11

I am sweet and humble. I give you the example that you will do as I do. Based on: John 13:6-11
Bouasse Lebel 800

Link to essay on meaning of this ceremony in the Gospel of John

John 17:21

Spiritual Marriage That they may be one. John 17:21
Bonamy edit. Pontifical, Poitiers

By Chapter and Verse

To all those who recieved Him and believed in His Name,
He gave the power to become children of God.
~John 1:12

And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, full of Grace and Truth.
John 1:14

John 10
He is the true shepherd to whom the doorkeeper opens the door "To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

(John 10:3).
He is also the door itself: "I am the door; if anyone enters through Me, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture."(John 10:9).

This is the Good Shepherd who gives his life for His sheep.
John 10:11

I am the Good Shepherd.
I know my own,
and my own know Me.
John 10:14

I give my life for my sheep. John 10:15

Mandatum - washing of the disciples' feet

John 13:6-11

That they may be one. John 17:21