Throughout the liturgical year, whenever the church wants us to pay a particular attention to a particular mystery of Christ's life,

whenever the church wants to deepen our prayer in a particular season, she always turns to the gospel of John

and has us read from it

for example when

we enter the Christmas season it's John's gospel

that the church turns to to shape

our meditation and our prayer focused

on the incarnation and birth of the eternal word.

At the end of Lent, the church turns to St. John's Gospel again, which we read at mass,

to shape our prayer and meditation during Passion Tide as we get ready to enter into Holy Week.

And the church's reading of St. John continues into the Easter season

as that most glorious

and joyful season of the year, we

fix our minds and hearts

and contemplating

the glorious mystery of Christ's

resurrection.

So the gospel of John

has a special importance for the church and has a special importance for the church

and has a special importance for us

is that gospel among the four gospels that shapes our prayer

and our meditation at the church's high points of the year.

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