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 This is the last month! Can you believe it? If you started with Genesis, you are actually going to finish reading the entire Bible! Two of the very earliest of Jesus’ disciples were John an d his brother James. John, particularly, was blessed to have known Jesus the longest and would come to describe himself as the one “whom Jesus loved”. In Mt. 20, there is a strange account of the mother of John and James asking Jesus that her two sons sit with Him in His Kingdom, one on His left and one on His right. Jesus soberly promised that such would be the case but warned them of what it would mean for them. In Acts 12, just as the Church was beginning to grow, the first disciple to be martyred for the Gospel was James. That is what was meant for him to hold such a special place in Jesus’ Kingdom. For his brother John, it was quite the opposite. John would be the last of the disciples to die. It would be his baptism to see the Church prosper gloriously but also suffer terribly. It was also for John to write the last of the four Gospels. His is different from the others and contains the most of Jesus’ teaching during the last week before the crucifixion. And it was John who wrote the wonderful and mysterious words of his Revelation to affirm Jesus’ promise to return and to instill hope in the Church. John lived well into his 90s. In his last days, he was known to repeat often the commission:

“Little children, love one another.”

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