Saturday 27 May, 2023 | Seventh Week of Easter |Readings: Acts 28:16-20,30-31; Psalm 10(11):4-5,7; John 21:20-25 (You can find these in full on the Universalis website – Click here)
In 2022, Penguin Publishers asked their readers to tell them about their favourite classic books, and they created a list of 100 must read classics featuring the likes of Charles Dickens and Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and Thomas Hardy, to name just a few. Mark Twain, the author of Huckleberry Finn which was published in 1884, also featured on the list at number 31, although of Classic novels, he once wrote, ’Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.” Perhaps this observation applies to many of us!
As the gospel of John comes to an end in today’s gospel reading, we have what appears to be a personal postscript from the gospel writer. He offers a personal confirmation to all the things we have read for he himself had witnessed them and written them down. He then goes on to say that the gospel account is by no means exclusive. “There were many other things that Jesus did,” he wrote. “If all were written down, the world itself, I suppose, would not hold all the books that would have to be written.”
The first-hand witness accounts of all that Jesus did and said are preserved and presented to us in the New Testament so that we, too, can experience a contemporary encounter with Christ. Each gospel offers a different perspective for a different audience, and each contributes to the other as, through the reading of Sacred Scripture, we seek to know and love God more and more. Since those early days of the life of the Church, so many theological books have been written and words shared as we seek to deepen our understanding. But all of those books and each of those words are measured by Holy Scripture, to which we constantly turn as something which we praise but also read and take to heart.
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