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Today's Readings
Reading I
Dt 7:6-11
Moses said to the people: "You are a people sacred to the LORD, your
God; he has chosen you from all the nations on the face of the earth
to be a people peculiarly his own. It was not because you are the
largest of all nations that the LORD set his heart on you and chose
you, for you are really the smallest of all nations. It was because
the LORD loved you and because of his fidelity to the oath he had
sworn your fathers, that he brought you out with his strong hand
from the place of slavery, and ransomed you from the hand of
Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Understand, then, that the LORD, your God,
is God indeed, the faithful God who keeps his merciful covenant down
to the thousandth generation toward those who love him and keep his
commandments, but who repays with destruction a person who hates
him; he does not dally with such a one, but makes them personally
pay for it. You shall therefore carefully observe the commandments,
the statutes and the decrees that I enjoin on you today."
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8, 10.
R. (cf. 17) The Lord's kindness is everlasting to those who fear
him. Bless the LORD, O my soul; all my being, bless his holy
name. Bless the LORD, O my soul; and forget not all his benefits. R.
The Lord's kindness is everlasting to those who fear him. He
pardons all your iniquities, heals all your ills. He redeems your
life from destruction, crowns you with kindness and compassion. R.
The Lord's kindness is everlasting to those who fear him.
Merciful and gracious is the LORD, slow to anger and abounding in
kindness. Not according to our sins does he deal with us, nor does
he requite us according to our crimes. R. The Lord's kindness is
everlasting to those who fear him.
Reading II
1 Jn 4:7-16
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone
who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Whoever is without love
does not know God, for God is love. In this way the love of God was
revealed to us: God sent his only Son into the world so that we
might have life through him. In this is love: not that we have loved
God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our
sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another. No
one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another, God remains in
us, and his love is brought to perfection in us. This is how
we know that we remain in him and he in us, that he has given us of
his Spirit. Moreover, we have seen and testify that the Father sent
his Son as savior of the world. Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is
the Son of God, God remains in him and he in God. We have come to
know and to believe in the love God has for us. God is love,
and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.
Gospel
Mt 11:25-30
At that time Jesus exclaimed: "I give praise to you, Father, Lord of
heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the
wise and the learned you have revealed them to little ones. Yes,
Father, such has been your gracious will. All things have been
handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the
Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to
whom the Son wishes to reveal him. "Come to me, all you who
labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon
you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you
will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden
light."
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