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This year, we are reading through all four Gospels.

Join us as we invite God to plant seeds of faith in our lives through His Holy Word.

Hey, Sprouts, welcome back to the Catholic Sprouts podcast, where we are reading through the Gospels this school year.

Yesterday, we started the Gospel of John.

This week, we are going to be talking about many of the

background pieces that will help us understand this very unique gospel. Today, we are going to

talk about when St. John wrote this gospel, because it's important for us to understand that as we start to read it. But before we

dive into that, please join me in prayer. In the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,

amen. Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love.

Send forth your spirit and they shall be created and you will renew the face of the earth.

Amen.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

So yesterday we talked about how St. John the Evangelist was one of the 12 apostles.

His brother's name was James. His father's name was Zebedee. Now, another person that knew St. John,

the evangelist, when he was alive, is a man that we know as St. Ignatius of Antioch.

Now, St. Ignatius of Antioch was a bishop in the early church. And I'm talking really early,

like before the year 100. And so just to place yourself in time, remember that we think, we know

Jesus was born around the year zero AD. He died around the year 33 AD. And so Ignatius of Antioch

was living. He might have been a little boy at the time of Jesus's

death, but he certainly knew St. John the Evangelist. In fact, according to tradition, we believe that

St. Ignatius of Antioch belonged to the community that St. John the evangelist formed. And in that community, he, of course,

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