Weekdays before Epiphany
4th January |
The First Reading for today is from the first letter of St John
3:7-10.
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He cannot sin when he has been begotten by God.
My children, do not let anyone lead your astray: to live a holy life is to be holy just as God is holy; to lead a sinful life is to belong to the devil, since the devil was a sinner from the beginning. It was to undo all that the devil has done that the Son of God appeared. No one who has been begotten by God sins; because God's seed remains inside him, he cannot sin when he has been begotten by God. In this way we distinguish the children of God from the children of the devil: anybody not living a holy life and not loving his brother is no child of God's.
This is the Word of the Lord.
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The Responsorial Psalm is Ps 97:1.7-9 R v.3
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All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
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Sing a new song to the Lord
for he has worked wonders.
His right hand and his holy arm
have brought salvation. R
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Let the sea and all within it, thunder;
the world, and all its peoples.
Let the rivers clap their hands
and the hills ring out their joy
at the presence of the Lord. R
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For the Lord comes,
he comes to rule the earth.
He will rule the world with justice
and the peoples with fairness. R
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The Second Reading for today is No second reading.
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This is the Word of the Lord.
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The Gospel Acclamation for today is Jn 1:14.12
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Alleluia, alleluia!
The word became flesh,
and dwelt among us.
To all who received him
he gave power to become children of God.
Alleluia! |
A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
1:35-42.
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We have found the Messiah.
As John stood there with two of his disciples, Jesus passed, and John stared hard at him and said, “Look, there is the lamb of God.” Hearing this, the two disciples followed Jesus. Jesus turned round, saw them following and said, “What do you want?” They answered, “Rabbi – which means teacher – where do you live?” “Come and see” he replied, so they went and saw where he lived, and stayed with him the rest of that day. It was about the tenth hour.
One of these two who became followers of Jesus after hearing what John had said was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter. Early next morning, Andrew met his brother and said to him, “We have found the Messiah – which means Christ – and he took Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked hard at him and said, “You are Simon son of John, you are to be called Cephas – meaning Rock.
This is the Gospel of the Lord.
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