Hello everyone and welcome to Catholic Saints. My name is Taylor Kemp. I'm the director

of Formed and with me today is Dr. Jim Prothrow, who's laughing. You don't like my name?

I was making a face because I didn't realize we were rolling yet. We're in people and

there's no going back. I'm very happy that all of you can see this other side of me. That's good. Well, okay. I'm really glad to be here, Taylor. I'm glad to have you. What is this other side of you that you speak of? The side that makes faces. Oh, yes. When the camera's not on. That's true. There may be some of you that are listening to this through podcast. what you're missing out on is a humorous

face of Dr. James Prothrow.

Yes.

But for those of you who are here on video, you have the privilege of seeing it.

So that is good.

So Dr. Prothrow, can you tell us quickly?

What are you a professor of?

What do you teach?

I teach Bible.

And I'm a professor of sacred scripture and theology. So I mostly

teach biblical classes. So I teach biblical languages here and I teach classes in different books and

sections of the New Testament, especially. Very good. That is a perfect application for what we were

talking about today. On this episode of Catholic Saints, we were talking about St. John, the evangelist, the apostle, the gospel writer, obviously who is in Scripture.

So, Dr. Brother, can we start off with when do we celebrate the feast of St. John?

Yeah, so the Feast of St. John is celebrated on December 27th. Okay. Very good. It's quite nice because at the beginning of the Christmas season we read a whole lot from St. John, that's true. From his epistle especially. Very nice. Okay, so that's his feast day, December 27th, Mark a calendar right after Christmas. Okay, so we're talking about St. John. Where should we start?

Who was St. John? Or John before he was St. John. Yeah, that's right. He was just John. So he's

John, and he's one of the sons of Zebedee. So he and his brother, James, are both fishermen.

They work for their dad. It seemed to be running, helping with the family business.

They have different hirelings in the boat when Jesus encounters them.

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