Categories: spiritual-writings
Date: 10 May 2007 04:36:01
From Word from the Desert:
The blessed evangelist John when he remained at Ephesus up to the highest old age and could scarcely be carried to church in the hands of disciples and was not able to put together a statement of several words, used to offer in different sayings nothing else but: “Little children, love one another.” At last the disciples and brethren who were present, tired of the fact that they always heard the same thing, said, “Teacher, why do you always say this?” John made a worthy response: “Because it was the Lord's precept, and if this alone is done, it is enough.”Jerome, Commentary on Galatians 6.10 (PL 26:462)
St. John the Theologian, commemorated 8 May & 26 September
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