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Reading John in Lent

Catholic Bishops' Conference

25 episodes

8 months ago

During the weekdays and Saturdays of Lent, we're bringing you daily podcasts from the Gospel of John - "the disciple whom Jesus loved". Starting with an introduction from Canon Christopher Thomas on Shrove Tuesday, 'Reading John in Lent' starts in earnest on Ash Wednesday with John 1: 1-18, telling us how "the Word became flesh and dwelt among us" - Jesus Christ, the only Son from the Father. We then follow the Gospel through all 22 chapters concluding on the Friday of Easter Week. Join us as for 'Reading John in Lent'. Taken from the English Standard Version of the Bible.

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During the weekdays and Saturdays of Lent, we're bringing you daily podcasts from the Gospel of John - "the disciple whom Jesus loved". Starting with an introduction from Canon Christopher Thomas on Shrove Tuesday, 'Reading John in Lent' starts in earnest on Ash Wednesday with John 1: 1-18, telling us how "the Word became flesh and dwelt among us" - Jesus Christ, the only Son from the Father. We then follow the Gospel through all 22 chapters concluding on the Friday of Easter Week. Join us as for 'Reading John in Lent'. Taken from the English Standard Version of the Bible.

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Reading John in Lent

Today we complete our journey through the Gospel of John. Jesus asks Simon Peter three times if he loves him. Each time he responds in the affirmative. The third time, Simon Peter replies, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus says to him, “Feed my sheep. Truly, truly, I say to […]

2 years ago

4 minutes 28 seconds

Reading John in Lent

Jesus reveals himself for the third time to the disciples after his death, by the Sea of the Tiberias. Just as the day was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore; yet the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them, “Children, do you have any fish?” They answered him, “No.” He […]

2 years ago

3 minutes 14 seconds

Reading John in Lent

Jesus appears to his disciples and shows them his hands and his side. He breathes on them and says, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.” Reading John in Lent has become Reading John in Easter and concludes on Easter Friday. […]

2 years ago

3 minutes 35 seconds

Reading John in Lent

In today’s episode, Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene. Jesus says to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God’.” Reading John in Lent has […]

2 years ago

2 minutes 30 seconds

Reading John in Lent

We continue reading the Gospel of John into Easter Week so Reading John in Lent has become Reading John in Easter for the final five episodes. Today, Mary Magdalene visits the tomb early and sees the stone had been taken away. She runs to Simon Peter and the other disciple and says, “They have taken […]

2 years ago

2 minutes 15 seconds

Reading John in Lent

Jesus’s body is taken and bound in linen cloths with spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews. Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since […]

2 years ago

2 minutes 5 seconds

Reading John in Lent

In today’s episode, we experience the Death of our Saviour, Jesus. Knowing that all was now finished, Jesus said (to fulfil the Scripture), “I thirst.” So they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop brand and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It […]

2 years ago

2 minutes 30 seconds

Reading John in Lent

So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull. There there crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side and Jesus between them. Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister. When Jesus saw his […]

2 years ago

3 minutes 51 seconds

Reading John in Lent

Pilate has Jesus flogged and the soldiers twist together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands. During Lent, we’re reading the Gospel of John every weekday and Saturday of the season. In fact, the series […]

2 years ago

3 minutes 17 seconds

Reading John in Lent

The officers of the Jews took Jesus to the governor’s headquarters. Pilate asked Jesus what it was he had done, to which he responded, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But […]

2 years ago

3 minutes 37 seconds

Reading John in Lent

In this episode, we witness the arrest of Jesus and Peter’s denial. When questioned about his teachings, Jesus answered, “I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret” During Lent, we’re reading the Gospel of John […]

2 years ago

5 minutes 19 seconds

Reading John in Lent

In today’s episode, we listen to the High Priestly Prayer Jesus spoke as he lifted up his eyes to heaven. “Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may […]

2 years ago

5 minutes 23 seconds

Reading John in Lent

The disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me'”. Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will […]

2 years ago

4 minutes 57 seconds

Reading John in Lent

In today’s episode we learn about the work of the Holy Spirit: “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.” During […]

2 years ago

2 minutes 23 seconds

Reading John in Lent

John 15: 1 to John 16: 4

In today’s episode, Jesus says to the disciples, “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so […]

2 years ago

5 minutes 45 seconds

Reading John in Lent

In today’s episode, we learn the power of the Holy Spirit, which Jesus promises to the disciples. “These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance […]

2 years ago

3 minutes 58 seconds

Reading John in Lent

John 13: 31 to John 14: 1-14

Today we learn that Jesus and the Father are one. Thomas said to Jesus, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you had […]

2 years ago

4 minutes 40 seconds

Reading John in Lent

Jesus knew his hour to depart the world and be with the Father had come. Before the Feast of the Passover, during supper, Jesus washed the feet of the disciples. At that moment, the disciples did not understand this act. Jesus said to them, “If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, […]

2 years ago

5 minutes 28 seconds

Reading John in Lent

People still do not believe in Jesus, despite the many signs he has shown them, for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God. Today we listen to the words of the prophet Isaiah, “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with […]

2 years ago

2 minutes 49 seconds

Reading John in Lent

In today’s episode, Jesus enters Jerusalem. When the news spread that Jesus was coming, people went out to meet him and crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” During Lent, we’re reading the Gospel of John every weekday and Saturday of the season. […]

2 years ago

4 minutes 22 seconds