St. John The Apostle
Feast Day: December 27
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Earth cannot bar flame from ascending,
Hell cannot bind light from descending,
Death cannot finish life never ending.
Eagle and sun gaze at each other,
Eagle at sun, brother at Brother,
Loving in peace and joy one another.
O St. John, with chains for thy wages,
Strong thy rock where the storm-blast rages,
Rock of refuge, the Rock of Ages.
Rome hath passed with her awful voice,
Earth is passing with all her joys,
Heaven shall pass away with a noise.
So from us all follies that please us,
So from us all falsehoods that ease us,–
Only all saints abide with their Jesus.
Jesus, in love looking down hither,
Jesus, by love draw us up thither,
That we in Thee may abide together.
Before 1893
'Beloved, let us love one another,' says St. John,
Eagle of eagles calling from above:
Words of strong nourishment for life to feed upon,
'Beloved, let us love.'
Voice of an eagle, yea, Voice of the Dove:
If we may love, winter is past and gone;
Publish we, praise we, for lo it is enough.
More sunny than sunshine that ever yet shone,
Sweetener of the bitter, smoother of the rough,
Highest lesson of all lessons for all to con,
'Beloved, let us love.'
Before 1886
Today is the Feast of St. John the Apostle in the Catholic calendar. John's Gospel and his Epistles contain some of the most beautiful passages in the whole Bible. Christina Rossetti's poem quotes from his First Epistle, Chapter 4, verse 7: "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God." John's Gospel has the great teaching that Jesus' command is love: "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another" (John 13:34-35).
There is a legend that at the end of his life, when John the Apostle was a very old man, that he preached his last sermon, and he simply exhorted his congregation over and over, "Little children, love one another."
Feast Day: December 27
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Earth cannot bar flame from ascending,
Hell cannot bind light from descending,
Death cannot finish life never ending.
Eagle and sun gaze at each other,
Eagle at sun, brother at Brother,
Loving in peace and joy one another.
O St. John, with chains for thy wages,
Strong thy rock where the storm-blast rages,
Rock of refuge, the Rock of Ages.
Rome hath passed with her awful voice,
Earth is passing with all her joys,
Heaven shall pass away with a noise.
So from us all follies that please us,
So from us all falsehoods that ease us,–
Only all saints abide with their Jesus.
Jesus, in love looking down hither,
Jesus, by love draw us up thither,
That we in Thee may abide together.
Before 1893
'Beloved, let us love one another,' says St. John,
Eagle of eagles calling from above:
Words of strong nourishment for life to feed upon,
'Beloved, let us love.'
Voice of an eagle, yea, Voice of the Dove:
If we may love, winter is past and gone;
Publish we, praise we, for lo it is enough.
More sunny than sunshine that ever yet shone,
Sweetener of the bitter, smoother of the rough,
Highest lesson of all lessons for all to con,
'Beloved, let us love.'
Before 1886
Today is the Feast of St. John the Apostle in the Catholic calendar. John's Gospel and his Epistles contain some of the most beautiful passages in the whole Bible. Christina Rossetti's poem quotes from his First Epistle, Chapter 4, verse 7: "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God." John's Gospel has the great teaching that Jesus' command is love: "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another" (John 13:34-35).
There is a legend that at the end of his life, when John the Apostle was a very old man, that he preached his last sermon, and he simply exhorted his congregation over and over, "Little children, love one another."
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