Three Prayers to Saint John the Apostle

Prayer to Saint John the Beloved Disciple

O Glorious Apostle, who, on account of your virginal purity, was most beloved by Jesus as to deserve to lay your head upon His divine breast, and to be left, in His place, as son to His most holy Mother; I beg you to inflame within me a true and ardent love towards Jesus and Mary. Obtain for me from our Lord that I, too, with a heart purified from earthly affections, may be made worthy to be ever united to Jesus as a faithful disciple, and to Mary as a devoted son, both here on earth and eternally in heaven. Amen. St. John, the beloved disciple of our Lord, pray for us.

Hymn of Praise to St. John the Evangelist

An exile for the faith

Of thy Incarnate Lord,

Beyond the stars, beyond all space,

Thy soul imprisoned soared:

There saw in glory Him

Who liveth, and was dead;

There Judah's Lion, and the Lamb

That for our ransom bled.

There of the Kingdom learnt

The mysteries sublime;

How, sown in martyrs' blood, the faith

Should spread from clime to clime.

The Holy City, bathed

In her dear Spouse's light,

Pure seat of bliss, thy spirit saw,

And gloried in the sight.

Now to the Lamb's clear fount,

To drink of life their fill,

Thou callest all; O Lord, in me

This blessed thirst instil.

To Jesus, Virgin-born,

Praise with the Father be;

Praise to the Spirit Paraclete,

Through all eternity. Amen.

Collect Prayer for the Feast of St. John the Apostle

O God, who through the blessed Apostle John have unlocked for us the secrets of your Word, grant, we pray, that we may grasp with proper understanding what he has so marvelously brought to our ears. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and with the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.