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John of the Cross (San Juan de la Cruz) (24 June 1542 - 14 December 1591), born Juan de Yepes Alvarez, was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, Catholic saint, Carmelite friar and priest, born at Fontiveros, Old Castile.
Saint John of the Cross was a reformer of the Carmelite Order and is considered, along with Saint Teresa of Ávila, as a founder of the Discalced Carmelites. He is also known for his writings. Both his poetry and his studies on the growth of the soul are considered the summit of mystical Spanish literature and one of the peaks of all Spanish literature. He was canonized as a saint in 1726 by Pope Benedict XIII. He is one of the thirty-three Doctors of the Church. When his feast day was inserted into the General Roman Calendar in 1738, it was assigned at first to 24 November, since his date of death was impeded by the then existing octave of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. This obstacle was removed in 1955 and in 1969 his feast day was moved to his date of death, 14 December
Saint John of the Cross
Confessor and Doctor of the Church
Born 24 June 1542
Fontiveros, Spain
Died December 14, 1591 (aged 49)
Ubeda, Andalusia, Spain
Venerated in Roman Catholic Church; Anglican Communion; Lutheran Church
Beatified 25 January 1675 by Pope Clement X
Canonized 27 December 1726 by Pope Benedict XIII
Major shrine Tomb of Saint John of the Cross, Segovia, Spain
Feast 14 December
24 November (General Roman Calendar, 1738-1969)
Patronage contemplative life; contemplatives; mystical theology; mystics; Spanish poets
1. Life
1. 1. Early life and education
St. John was born by the name of Juan de Yepes Alvarez [1] into a Jewish converso family in a small community near Ávila. [2] His father died when he was young, and so John, his two older brothers and his widowed mother struggled with poverty, moving around and living in various Castilian villages, with the last being Medina del Campo, to which he moved in 1551. [3] There he worked at a hospital and studied the humanities at a Society of Jesus (Jesuit) school from 1559 to 1563. The Society of Jesus was a new organization at the time, having been founded a few years earlier by the Spanish St. Ignatius Loyola. On 24 February 1563 he entered the Carmelite order, adopting the name Fr. Juan de Santo Matía.
The following year (1564) he professed as a Carmelite (was promoted from novice status) and moved to Salamanca, where he studied theology and philosophy at the University and at the Colegio de San Andrés. This stay would influence all his later writings, as Fray Luis de León taught biblical studies (Exegesis, Hebrew and Aramaic) at the University. León was one of the foremost experts in Biblical Studies then and had written an important and controversial translation of the Song of Songs into Spanish. (Translation of the Bible into the vernacular was not allowed then in Spain).
1. 2. Priesthood and association with Saint Teresa of Avila
A series of articles onChristian meditation
Articles Aspects of meditation • Christian meditation • Hesychasm • Reflection on the New Age
Early period Gregory of Nyssa • Bernard of Clairvaux • Guigo II
13-14th centuries Francis of Assisi • Dominic de Guzmán • Bonaventure • Catherine of Siena
15-16th century Ignatius of Loyola • Francisco de Osuna • John of Avila • Teresa of Avila • John of the Cross
17-18th centuries Francis de Sales • Pierre de Bérulle
19th century Therese of Lisieux • Gemma Galgani • Conchita de Armida
20th century Maria Valtorta • Faustina Kowalska • Thomas Merton
Saint John was ordained a priest in 1567, and then indicated his intent to join the strict Carthusian order, which appealed to him because of its encouragement of solitary and silent contemplation. Before this, however, he travelled to Medina del Campo, where he met the charismatic Saint Teresa de Jesús. She immediately talked to him about her reformation projects for the Carmelite order, and asked him to delay his entry into the Carthusians. The following year, on 28 November, he started this reformation at Duruelo together with Fr. Antonio de Jesús de Heredia, and the originally small and impoverished town of Duruelo became a center of religion.
John, still in his 20s, continued to work as a helper of Saint Teresa until 1577, founding monasteries around Spain and taking active part in their government. These foundations and the reformation process were resisted by a great number of Carmelite friars, some of whom felt that Teresa's version of the order was too strict. Some of these opponents would even try to bar Teresa from entering their convents.
The followers of St. John and St. Teresa differentiated themselves from the non-reformed communities by calling themselves the "discalced", i.e., barefoot, and the others the "calced" Carmelites.
1. 3. Imprisonment, writings, torture, death and recognition
On the night of 2 December 1577, John was taken prisoner by his superiors in the calced Carmelites, who had launched a counter-program against John and Teresa's reforms. John had refused an order to return to his original house, on the basis that his reform work had been approved by the Spanish Nuncio, a higher authority than John's direct superiors in the calced Carmelites. [4] John was jailed in Toledo, where he was kept under a brutal regimen that included public lashing before the community at least weekly, and severe isolation in a tiny stifling cell barely large enough for his body. He managed to escape nine months later, on 15 August 1578, through a small window in a room adjoining his cell. (He had managed to pry the cell door off its hinges earlier that day). In the meantime, he had composed a great part of his most famous poem Spiritual Canticle during this imprisonment; his harsh sufferings and spiritual endeavours are then reflected in all of his subsequent writings. The paper was passed to him by one of the friars guarding his cell. [5]
After returning to a normal life, he went on with the reformation and the founding of monasteries for the new Discalced Carmelite order, which he had helped found along with his fellow St. Teresa de Ávila.
He died on 14 December 1591, of erysipelas (cellulitis). His writings were first published in 1618, and he was canonized by Benedict XIII in 1726. In 1926, he was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius XI. When inserted into the Roman Catholic calendar of saints in 1738, his feast day was assigned to 24 November. [6] Pope Paul VI moved it to the dies natalis (birthday to heaven) of the saint, 14 December. [7]
The Church of England commemorates him as a "Teacher of the Faith" on the same date.
2. Literary works
St. John of the Cross is considered one of the foremost poets in the Spanish language. Although his complete poems add up to less than 2500 verses, two of them—the Spiritual Canticle and Dark Night of the Soul are widely considered to be among the best poems ever written in Spanish, both for their formal stylistic point of view and their rich symbolism and imagery.
The Spiritual Canticle is an eclogue in which the bride (representing the soul) searches for the bridegroom (representing Jesus Christ), and is anxious at having lost him; both are filled with joy upon reuniting. It can be seen as a free-form Spanish version of the Song of Songs at a time when translations of the Bible into the vernacular were forbidden.
Dark Night of the Soul (from which the spiritual term takes its name) narrates the journey of the soul from her bodily home to her union with God. It happens during the night, which represents the hardships and difficulties she meets in detachment from the world and reaching the light of the union with the Creator. There are several steps in this night, which are related in successive stanzas. The main idea of the poem can be seen as the painful experience that people endure as they seek to grow in spiritual maturity and union with God. A year after writing this poem, in 1586 he wrote a commentary on Dark Night of the Soul with the same title. This commentary explains the meaning of the poem verse by verse.
St. John also wrote four treatises on mystical theology, two treatises concerning the two poems above, which set out to explain the true meaning of the poems verse by verse and even word by word.
The third work, Ascent of Mount Carmel is a more systematic study of the ascetical endeavour of a soul looking for perfect union, God, and the mystical events happening along the way. A four stanza work, Living Flame of Love describes a greater intimacy, as the soul responds to God's love. These, together with his Dichos de Luz y Amor, or "Sayings of Light and Love," and St. Teresa's writings, are the most important mystical works in Spanish, and have deeply influenced later spiritual writers all around the world. Among these can be named T. S. Eliot, Thérèse de Lisieux, Edith Stein (Teresa Benedicta of the Cross), and Thomas Merton. John has also influenced philosophers (Jacques Maritain), theologians (Hans Urs von Balthasar), and pacifists (Dorothy Day, Daniel Berrigan, and Philip Berrigan). Pope John Paul II wrote his theological dissertation on the mystical theology of Saint John of the Cross. Saint John is also mentioned in Allen Ginsberg's groundbreaking poem Howl, [8] and is quoted by Jonas Mekas in his epic film-diary work 'Walden'.
3. See also
•Book of the First Monks
•Byzantine Discalced Carmelites
•Calendar of saints (Church of England)
•Carmelite Rule of St. Albert
•Christian Meditation
•Constitutions of the Carmelite Order
•Miguel Asín Palacios
•Saint Raphael Kalinowski, the first friar to be canonized (in 1991 by Pope John Paul II) in the Order of Discalced Carmelites since Saint John of the Cross
•Spanish Renaissance literature
•Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites
4. Books
•Dark Night of the Soul: A Masterpiece in the Literature of Mysticism (Translated and Edited by E. Allison Peers), Doubleday, 1959. ISBN 978-0-385-02930-8
•The Poems of Saint John of the Cross (English Versions and Introduction by Willis Barnstone), Indiana University Press, 1968, revised 2nd ed. New Directions, 1972. ISBN 0-8112-0449-9
•Dark Night Of The Soul, Saint John of The Cross (Translated by Mirabai Starr), Riverhead Books, New York, 2002, ISBN 1-57322-974-1
•Poems of St John of The Cross (Translated and Introduction by Kathleen Jones), Burns and Oates, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK, 1993, ISBN 0-86012-210-7
5. References
1.Rodriguez, Jose Vincente, Biographical Narrative. God Speaks in the Night. The Life, Times, and Teaching of St. John of the Cross, Washington D.C.: ICS Publications, 1991, p. 3
2.Norman Roth, Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1995, pp. 157, 369
3.Matthew, Iain (1995). The Impact of God, Soundings from St John of the Cross.. Hodder & Stoughton. pp. 3. ISBN 0340612576.
4.Bennedict Zimmermann. "Ascent of Mt Carmel , introductory essay THE DEVELOPMENT OF MYSTICISM IN THE CARMELITE ORDER". Thomas Baker and Internet Archive. http://www.archive.org/details/ascentofmountcar00johnuoft. Retrieved 2009-12-11.
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5.Dark night of the soul. Translation by Mirabai Starr. ISBN 1-57322-974-1 p.8.
6.Calendarium Romanum (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1969), p. 110
7.Calendarium Romanum (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1969), p. 146
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Psalm 42
Psalm 42
1As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God.
2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God?
3My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me continually, “Where is your God?”
4These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I went with the throng, and led them in procession to the house of God, with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
5Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help
6and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
7Deep calls to deep at the thunder of your cataracts; all your waves and your billows have gone over me.
8By day the Lord commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
9I say to God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk about mournfully because the enemy oppresses me?”
10As with a deadly wound in my body, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me continually, “Where is your God?”
11Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God.
Ezekiel 47:1-12
Ezekiel 47:1-12
47Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple; there, water was flowing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east); and the water was flowing down from below the south end of the threshold of the temple, south of the altar. 2Then he brought me out by way of the north gate, and led me around on the outside to the outer gate that faces toward the east; and the water was coming out on the south side. 3Going on eastward with a cord in his hand, the man measured one thousand cubits, and then led me through the water; and it was ankle-deep. 4Again he measured one thousand, and led me through the water; and it was knee-deep. Again he measured one thousand, and led me through the water; and it was up to the waist. 5Again he measured one thousand, and it was a river that I could not cross, for the water had risen; it was deep enough to swim in, a river that could not be crossed. 6He said to me, “Mortal, have you seen this?” Then he led me back along the bank of the river. 7As I came back, I saw on the bank of the river a great many trees on the one side and on the other. 8He said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah; and when it enters the sea, the sea of stagnant waters, the water will become fresh. 9Wherever the river goes, every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish, once these waters reach there. It will become fresh; and everything will live where the river goes. 10People will stand fishing beside the sea from En-gedi to En-eglaim; it will be a place for the spreading of nets; its fish will be of a great many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea. 11But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt. 12On the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.”
Jude 17-25
Jude 17-2517But you, beloved, must remember the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 18for they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, indulging their own ungodly lusts.” 19It is these worldly people, devoid of the Spirit, who are causing divisions. 20But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit; 21keep yourselves in the love of God; look forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. 22And have mercy on some who are wavering; 23save others by snatching them out of the fire; and have mercy on still others with fear, hating even the tunic defiled by their bodies. 24Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to make you stand without blemish in the presence of his glory with rejoicing, 25to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen
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December 14th, 2010
Tuesday of Gaudete (Advent 3)
Read today's Higher Things Daily Reflection
December 14, 2010 - Tuesday of the Third Week of Advent
Today's Reading: 1 Corinthians 4:1-5
Daily Lectionary: Isaiah 30:15-26; Revelation 2:1-29
Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. (1 Corinthians 4:1)
In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. How shall we consider our pastors? As just one more “professional” with a college degree? As the crazy guy whose choice of music drives you nuts on the way to a Higher Things conference? As a man whose only real work is on a Sunday morning? St. Paul teaches us to think of our pastors as stewards of the mysteries of God, that is, those entrusted with the holy gifts of Christ for our good and benefit.
This week of Advent turns our attention to John the Baptist who prepared the way of the Lord. That's your pastor's job—to prepare the way of the Lord. Your pastor's job is to remind you of your Baptism, to absolve you of your sins and to give you Jesus' Body and Blood to eat and to drink. He is there for you to confess your sins and to give to you the saving Word of Christ's forgiveness. When you fall into sin, your pastor is there to teach you God's Word, call you to repentance and point you to your Savior. Your pastor's job is like John's, to say, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. Who takes away YOUR sins.”
Christ gives us such stewards to give us His gifts faithfully so that we will never be in doubt as to our standing with the Lord. Christ has answered for all our sins on the cross of Calvary and risen from the dead. Now that forgiveness and life need to be delivered to you over and over until the Lord comes again. That's why the Lord has called you a pastor.
The pastor is never about himself. He's always, like John the Baptist, pointing to Christ. That's your pastor's job: to faithfully point you to Jesus. The faithful steward points you to Jesus and it is Jesus who gives you eternal life. In the Name of Jesus. Amen.
On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry Announces that the Lord is nigh; Awake and hearken, for he brings Glad tidings of the King of kings! (LSB 344:1)
Questions or comments regarding the Reflections may be sent to the Rev. Mark Buetow, Reflectons Editor, reflections@higherthings.org.
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Collect
Lord Jesus Christ, we implore You to hear our prayers and to lighten the darkness of our hearts by Your gracious visitation; for You live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
First Reading: Is. 30:15-26
15For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel,"In(A) returning[a] and(B) rest you shall be saved;
in quietness and in trust shall be your strength."But you were unwilling, 16and you said,"No! We will flee upon(C) horses";
therefore you shall flee away;and, "We will ride upon swift steeds";
therefore your pursuers shall be swift. 17(D) A thousand shall flee at the threat of one;
at the threat of five you shall flee,till you are left
like a flagstaff on the top of a mountain,
like a signal on a hill.
The LORD Will Be Gracious
18Therefore the LORD(E) waits to be gracious to you,
and therefore he(F) exalts himself to show mercy to you.For the LORD is a God of justice;
(G) blessed are all those who wait for him.
19For a people shall dwell(H) in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you. 20And though the Lord give you the(I) bread of adversity and the(J) water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher. 21(K) And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is(L) the way, walk in it," when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. 22Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images.(M) You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, "Be gone!"
23(N) And he will give(O) rain for the seed with which you sow the ground, and bread, the produce of the ground, which will be rich and plenteous.(P) In that day your livestock will graze in large pastures, 24and(Q) the oxen and the donkeys that work the ground will eat seasoned fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork. 25And(R) on every lofty mountain and every high hill there will be brooks running with water, in the day of the great slaughter,(S) when the towers fall. 26(T) Moreover, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when(U) the LORD binds up(V) the brokenness of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.
Footnotes:Isaiah 30:15 Or repentance
Cross references:Isaiah 30:15 : Hos 14:1 Isaiah 30:15 : Exodus 14:14 Isaiah 30:16 : Isaiah 31:1, 3; Hos 14:3 Isaiah 30:17 : Lev 26:8; Deut 32:30 Isaiah 30:18 : Hab 2:3 Isaiah 30:18 : Isaiah 5:16 Isaiah 30:18 : Psalm 2:12; 34:8; Prov 16:20; Jer 17:7 Isaiah 30:19 : Isaiah 14:32 Isaiah 30:20 : 1 Kgs 22:27; Psalm 127:2; Ezek 4:10, 11 Isaiah 30:20 : Isaiah 3:1, 2 Isaiah 30:21 : Jer 31:33, 34 Isaiah 30:21 : Isaiah 35:8; Acts 9:2 Isaiah 30:22 : Isaiah 2:20; 31:7; Hos 14:8 Isaiah 30:23 : Isaiah 32:20; Psalm 144:13, 14 Isaiah 30:23 : Jer 5:24 Isaiah 30:23 : Psalm 65:13 Isaiah 30:24 : Gen 45:6 Isaiah 30:25 : Isaiah 33:21; Psalm 107:35; Joel 3:18 Isaiah 30:25 : Isaiah 32:19; Isaiah 2:15 Isaiah 30:26 : Isaiah 60:19, 20 Isaiah 30:26 : Hos 6:1 Isaiah 30:26 : Isaiah 1:5, 6
Second Reading: Rev. 2:1-29
To the Church in Ephesus
1"To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: 'The words of(A) him who holds the seven stars in his right hand,(B) who walks among the seven golden lampstands.
2(C) "'I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but(D) have tested those(E) who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. 3I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up(F) for my name’s sake, and you(G) have not grown weary. 4But I have this against you, that you have abandoned(H) the love you had at first. 5Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do(I) the works you did at first. If not,(J) I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. 6Yet this you have: you hate the works of(K) the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. 7(L) He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.(M) To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of(N) the tree of life, which is in(O) the paradise of God.'
To the Church in Smyrna
8"And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: 'The words of(P) the first and the last,(Q) who died and came to life.
9"'I know your tribulation and(R) your poverty ((S) but you are rich) and the slander[a] of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. 10Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison,(T) that you may be tested, and for(U) ten days(V) you will have tribulation.(W) Be faithful(X) unto death, and I will give you(Y) the crown of life. 11(Z) He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.(AA) The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.'
To the Church in Pergamum
12"And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: 'The words of him who has(AB) the sharp two-edged sword.
13"'I know where you dwell,(AC) where Satan’s throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not(AD) deny my faith[b] even in the days of Antipas(AE) my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. 14But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of(AF) Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might(AG) eat food sacrificed to idols and(AH) practice sexual immorality. 15So also you have some who hold the teaching of(AI) the Nicolaitans. 16Therefore repent. If not,(AJ) I will come to you soon and(AK) war against them with(AL) the sword of my mouth. 17(AM) He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.(AN) To the one who conquers I will give some of(AO) the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with(AP) a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.'
To the Church in Thyatira
18"And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: 'The words of the Son of God,(AQ) who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.
19(AR) "'I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. 20But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman(AS) Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants[c](AT) to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. 21I gave her time to repent, but(AU) she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. 22Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works, 23and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he(AV) who searches mind and heart, and(AW) I will give to each of you according to your works. 24But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call(AX) the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I(AY) do not lay on you any other burden. 25Only hold fast(AZ) what you have until I come. 26(BA) The one who conquers and who keeps my works(BB) until the end,(BC) to him I will give authority over the nations, 27and(BD) he will(BE) rule them with a rod of iron,(BF) as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father. 28And I will give him(BG) the morning star. 29(BH) He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'
Footnotes:Revelation 2:9 Greek blasphemy Revelation 2:13 Or your faith in me Revelation 2:20 Greek bondservants
Cross references:Revelation 2:1 : Revelation 1:16, 20 Revelation 2:1 : Revelation 1:13 Revelation 2:2 : Revelation 2:19; Revelation 3:1, 8, 15 Revelation 2:2 : 1 John 4:1 Revelation 2:2 : 2 Cor 11:13 Revelation 2:3 : John 15:21 Revelation 2:3 : Heb 12:3, 5 Revelation 2:4 : Jer 2:2 Revelation 2:5 : Revelation 2:2; Heb 10:32 Revelation 2:5 : Revelation 3:3, 19 Revelation 2:6 : Revelation 2:15 Revelation 2:7 : Revelation 2:11, 17, 29; Revelation 3:6, 13, 22; 13:9 Revelation 2:7 : Revelation 3:5; 21:7 Revelation 2:7 : Gen 2:9 Revelation 2:7 : Ezek 28:13; 31:8 (Gk) Revelation 2:8 : Revelation 1:17 Revelation 2:8 : Revelation 1:18 Revelation 2:9 : James 2:5; 1 Tim 6:18; Heb 10:34; 11:26 Revelation 2:9 : Revelation 3:9, 10 Revelation 2:10 : Revelation 2:9 Revelation 2:10 : Gen 24:55; Dan 1:12, 14 Revelation 2:10 : Matt 24:9 Revelation 2:10 : Matt 10:22; Heb 3:6 Revelation 2:10 : Revelation 12:11 Revelation 2:10 : James 1:12 Revelation 2:11 : Revelation 2:7 Revelation 2:11 : Revelation 20:6, 14; 21:8 Revelation 2:12 : Revelation 2:16; Revelation 1:16 Revelation 2:13 : Revelation 2:9 Revelation 2:13 : 1 Tim 5:8 Revelation 2:13 : Acts 22:20 Revelation 2:14 : 2 Pet 2:15 Revelation 2:14 : Revelation 2:20; Acts 15:29; 1 Cor 8:10; 10:19 Revelation 2:14 : Num 25:1; 31:16; 1 Cor 10:8 Revelation 2:15 : Revelation 2:6 Revelation 2:16 : Revelation 22:7 Revelation 2:16 : 2 Thess 2:8 Revelation 2:16 : Revelation 2:12 Revelation 2:17 : Revelation 2:11 Revelation 2:17 : John 6:48-50 Revelation 2:17 : Revelation 3:12; Isa 62:2; 65:15 Revelation 2:17 : Revelation 19:12; Revelation 14:3 Revelation 2:18 : Revelation 1:14, 15 Revelation 2:19 : Revelation 2:2 Revelation 2:20 : 1 Kgs 16:31; 21:25; 2 Kgs 9:7 Revelation 2:20 : Revelation 2:14 Revelation 2:21 : Revelation 9:20, 21; 16:9, 11; Rom 2:4 Revelation 2:23 : Psalm 7:9; 26:2; Jer 20:12; Rom 8:27 Revelation 2:23 : Matt 16:27 Revelation 2:24 : 1 Cor 2:10 Revelation 2:24 : Acts 15:28 Revelation 2:25 : Revelation 3:11 Revelation 2:26 : Revelation 2:7 Revelation 2:26 : Heb 3:6 Revelation 2:26 : Psalm 2:8; Revelation 3:21; 20:4 Revelation 2:27 : Psalm 2:9 Revelation 2:27 : Revelation 12:5; 19:15 Revelation 2:27 : Isa 30:14; Jer 19:11 Revelation 2:28 : 2 Pet 1:19; Revelation 22:16 Revelation 2:29 : Revelation 2:7
Tuesday Father Reading
"Have no doubt that the angel is standing right there when Christ is there, when Christ is presented as the Sacrifice." [St. Ambrose. "Book I: On St. Luke 1:11 - 'There appeared unto him an angel.' 4th Century]
All Scripture Readings: English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.
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