The Daily Mass: St John before the Latin Gate 📱

Añadido: 2026-05-12

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[00:11:34]on this the feast of St. John at the Latin Gate. The epistle is from the book of wisdom.

[00:11:43]Then shall the just stand with great constancy against those that have afflicted them and taken away their labors. These seeing it shall be troubled with terrible fear and shall be amazed at the suddeness of their unexpected salvation, saying within themselves, repenting and groaning for anguish of spirit. These are they whom we had some time in derision and for a parable of reproach. We fools esteem their life madness and their end without honor. Behold how they are numbered among the children of God and their lot is among the saints. [snorts] And the holy gospel is the continuation of that according to St. Matthew. At that time the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to Jesus with her sons worshiping and asking something of him who said to her, "What wilt thou?" She saith to him, "Say that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand and the other on thy left in thy kingdom." And Jesus answering said, "You know not what you ask. Can you drink the chalice that I drink?" They saith to him, "We can." He saith to them, "My chalice indeed you shall drink. But to sit on my right or left hand is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared by my father.

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[00:13:18]Amen. Beloved in Christ, welcome to this broadcast mass on this, as we said, the feast of St. John before the Latin gate.

[00:13:27]Behold the scene. An old man stands before the power of empire. His hands are bound, his body is frail, and his crime is fidelity.

[00:13:40]Around him stand Roman soldiers. Before him judgment. Beneath him a cauldron, boiling, seething, prepared not merely to kill, but to destroy.

[00:13:54]This is John the Apostle, the beloved disciple, the last of the apostles, the one who leaned upon the breast of Christ. and he is about to be cast into fire.

[00:14:07]Do not pass over this lightly. The church does not preserve pious fables, but living memory.

[00:14:15]The flesh that once rested upon the heart of the incarnate word is now subjected to flames. And yet he does not resist. He does not plead. He does not negotiate.

[00:14:29]he receives.

[00:14:31]For long before this moment, another question had been asked of him. A question that resounds in today's gospel.

[00:14:39]Can you drink the chalice that I shall drink?

[00:14:44]Once in the order of youth, he answered quickly, "We can." He did not yet understand.

[00:14:51]He imagined a kingdom of glory, of nearness, of honor.

[00:14:57]One of the right, one of the left.

[00:15:00]He saw the crown, but he had not yet seen the cross.

[00:15:05]Now the chalice stands before him, and it is no longer a figure of speech.

[00:15:11]It is fire.

[00:15:14]He is cast into the oil, and the fire does not consume him. [clears throat] The torment becomes a testimony.

[00:15:23]The instrument of death becomes a sign of divine power. As once the three children walked unharmed in the furnace, so now the apostle emerges unscathed.

[00:15:34]The liturgy has already given us the key. But existy may de thou hast protected me, oh God.

[00:15:42]For St. John came out of the pot of boiling oil as if he had radiant as if he had just taken a bath.

[00:15:52]But understand this rightly, God did not spare John from the trial. He preserved him within it.

[00:16:00]We ask to be delivered from suffering.

[00:16:04]God grants us the grace to remain faithful in suffering.

[00:16:08]The miracle is not that John escaped the fire, but that he entered it without fear.

[00:16:16]The fire that saves is the fire we do not flee.

[00:16:24]This is the heart of today's feast. Not the oil, not the emperor, whether Nero or Dian, but the chalice.

[00:16:35]For the Christian life is not defined by the avoidance of suffering, but by participation in the passion of Christ.

[00:16:44]The gospel sets before us the sons of Zebedee with their mother's plea for honor. It is ambition dressed in devotion. But our Lord answers not with promise, but with a question that strips illusion bear. You know not what you ask. Can you drink the chalice that I shall drink?

[00:17:07]Here is the measure of apostolic truth.

[00:17:10]Not eloquence, not influence, not success, but the willingness to suffer with Christ.

[00:17:20]The chalice is the cross, the full outpouring of divine love through suffering offered for the redemption of the world.

[00:17:31]To drink it is to be conformed not to the image of worldly glory but to the image of the crucified.

[00:17:41]St. John said yes.

[00:17:45]And though he did not shed his blood as his brother James the Great later would, he drank the chalice in another way. His was the white martyrdom of endurance.

[00:17:56]The child at Rome, the exile to Patmos, the burden of prophetic vision, the loneliness of surviving when the others had gone, the pain of guarding truth in an age that resists it.

[00:18:09]He drank the chalice.

[00:18:12]Not in a moment, but in a lifetime.

[00:18:18]Consider how far he had come. Once a son of thunder, he wished to call down fire upon those who rejected the Lord. Once he sought places of honor in a kingdom he did not understand.

[00:18:32]His zeal was real, but it was not yet pure.

[00:18:37]The greatest deception is not that the cross exists, but that we believe we can follow Christ without it.

[00:18:47]So Christ led him by the way of the cross.

[00:18:51]At Calvary, when others fled, John remained. There he stood beneath the crucified.

[00:18:58]There he received the mother.

[00:19:01]There in that terrible stillness, he learned that love is not sentiment, but sacrifice.

[00:19:08]Steadfast, silent, enduring.

[00:19:14]And from that hour, he was no longer merely the disciple whom Jesus loved. He became the disciple who loved until the end.

[00:19:26]Dear faithful, many admire the chalice.

[00:19:31]Few drink it.

[00:19:34]We speak of faith, of mission, of renewal, but we forget the condition laid down by Christ himself.

[00:19:42]My chalice indeed you shall drink.

[00:19:46]Not you may, not you might.

[00:19:49]You shall.

[00:19:53]The church does not conquer by escaping the fire.

[00:19:57]She conquers by entering it with Christ.

[00:20:02]And this is the law of every Christian life. We too are tested not always by violence but by something more dangerous.

[00:20:12]The quiet pressure to conform.

[00:20:16]The slow erosion of conviction.

[00:20:19]The temptation to soften what must not be softened, to remain silent where truth demands witness.

[00:20:28]This is the hidden fire of our age and many are consumed by it. Not because it is too strong, but because they refuse the cross.

[00:20:41]The the epistle speaks with solemn clarity.

[00:20:45]Then shall the just stand with great constancy. Behold how they are numbered among the children of God.

[00:20:53]These words are placed upon the lips of those who once mocked the faithful.

[00:20:58]Too late they see what they refuse to believe.

[00:21:03]This is both warning and consolation.

[00:21:07]A warning. You may deride the faithful now, but you will not judge them in the end.

[00:21:15]A consolation.

[00:21:17]When you stand firm, when you keep the faith while others abandon it, when you uphold truth in the face of error, you stand with the just, with St. John vindicated not by man but by God.

[00:21:36]And what of us?

[00:21:39]We may never stand before a cauldron, but we will stand before the choice again and again in ways great and small.

[00:21:48]We are asked, "Will you drink the chalice?

[00:21:52]Will you remain faithful when it costs you? when it isolates you, when it contradicts the spirit of the age?

[00:22:03]Or will you step back quietly, respectably, fatally, the collect speaks with terrible honesty.

[00:22:18]Our own illdeeds disqu us on every side.

[00:22:23]For the enemy is not only without but within.

[00:22:29]Fear, pride, compromise, these prepare the soul for failure long before the trial arrives.

[00:22:39]And so we pray not to be spared the chalice, but to be made worthy of it.

[00:22:46]At the altar this mystery is renewed.

[00:22:48]The chalice is lifted not of boiling oil but of the precious blood.

[00:22:54]Yet it is the same sacrifice, the same cross, the same Christ.

[00:23:03]To receive him is to accept his life and his life is the cross.

[00:23:12]Dear faithful, remember this.

[00:23:15]The fire will come, but so will the crown.

[00:23:21]And the crown is not given to those who admired the chalice, but to those who drank from it.

[00:23:30]May the intercession of St. John obtained for us not merely the courage of a moment but the faithfulness of a lifetime so that preserved in the midst of trial we may stand at last among the saints rejoicing not in ourselves but in him who has overcome the world who is God father son and holy ghost.

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[00:42:29]Behold the Lamb of God. Behold him that taketh away the sins of the world.

[00:42:35]Brothers and sisters watching mass online and unable therefore to receive the blessed sacrament. We invite you now to make an act of spiritual communion.

[00:42:46]My Jesus, I believe that thou art present in the blessed sacrament. I love thee above all things and I desire thee in my soul. Since I cannot now receive thee sacramentally, comely spiritually into my heart. As though thou wer already there, I embrace thee and unite myself h wholly to thee. Permit not that I should ever be separated from thee.

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[00:52:54]May St. John the Evangelist pray for us.

[00:52:58]Saints Katherine and Wilfried pray for us. Saints Richard and Luina pray for us.

[00:53:05]Our Lady of Wingham, pray for us. Our heavenly patron saints, pray for us. Our holy guardian angels, pray for us. Our Lady, Queen of Heaven, all the angels and saints, pray for us.

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