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Today's Readings
Reading I
1 Jn 2:18-21
Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that the
antichrist was coming, so now many antichrists have appeared.
Thus we know this is the last hour. They went out from us, but
they were not really of our number; if they had been, they would
have remained with us. Their desertion shows that none of them
was of our number. But you have the anointing that comes from
the Holy One, and you all have knowledge. I write to you not
because you do not know the truth but because you do, and
because every lie is alien to the truth.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 96:1-2, 11-12, 13
R. (11a) Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice! Sing
to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all you lands. Sing to the
LORD; bless his name; announce his salvation, day after day.
R. Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice! Let the
heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea and what fills it
resound; let the plains be joyful and all that is in them! Then
shall all the trees of the forest exult before the LORD. R. Let
the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice! The LORD comes, he
comes to rule the earth. He shall rule the world with justice
and the peoples with his constancy. R. Let the heavens be glad
and the earth rejoice!
Gospel
Jn 1:1-18
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things
came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What
came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the
human race; the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has
not overcome it. A man named John was sent from God. He came
for testimony, to testify to the light, so that all might
believe through him. He was not the light, but came to testify to
the light. The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming
into the world. He was in the world, and the world came to be
through him, but the world did not know him. He came to what was his
own, but his own people did not accept him. But to those who
did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to
those who believe in his name, who were born not by natural
generation nor by human choice nor by a man’s decision
but of God. And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling
among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father’s
only-begotten Son, full of grace and truth. John testified to
him and cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said,
‘The one who is coming after me ranks ahead of me because he
existed before me.’” From his fullness we have all received, grace
in place of grace, because while the law was given through Moses,
grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God.
The only-begotten Son, God, who is at the Father’s side, has
revealed him.
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