Gospel: Today, on the Feast of St. John, we read the story in John's Gospel of Peter and the "Beloved Disciple" rushing to the empty tomb on Easter Sunday (Jn 20: 1-8). Traditionally, the "BD," an eyewitness in John's Gospel, is identified with John, the son of Zebedee.... 
Yet John's Gospel has a distinctly Judean focus and "John Zebedee" was from Galilee. Today some scholars think the figure of the Beloved Disciple may be a kind of "Everyman" or "Everywoman" figure. Others think it might be Lazarus (more about that in a book I'm working on)...
Whoever the "BD" is, the phrase raises an important question today: What does it mean for each of us to be a "beloved disciple" of Jesus? How can we experience ourselves as "beloved" by God, and how can we be better disciples of Jesus?
Image: "The Disciples Peter and John Running to the Sepulchre on the Morning of the Resurrection," by Eugène Burnand.
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