FIRST
READING: 1 John
2: 18 - 21
18
Children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that antichrist
is coming, so now many antichrists have come; therefore we know that
it is the last hour.
19
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been
of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out, that it
might be plain that they all are not of us.
20
But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all know.
21
I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because
you know it, and know that no lie is of the truth.
PSALM:
Psalms 96: 1
- 2, 11 - 13
1
O sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth!
2
Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to
day.
11
Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar,
and all that fills it;
12
let the field exult, and everything in it! Then shall all the trees
of the wood sing for joy
13
before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He
will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with his
truth.
GOSPEL:
John 1:
1 - 18
1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God.
2
He was in the beginning with God;
3
all things were made through him, and without him was not anything
made that was made.
4
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
5
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome
it.
6
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7
He came for testimony, to bear witness to the light, that all might
believe through him.
8
He was not the light, but came to bear witness to the light.
9
The true light that enlightens every man was coming into the world.
10
He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the
world knew him not.
11
He came to his own home, and his own people received him not.
12
But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power
to become children of God;
13
who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the
will of man, but of God.
14
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and
truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the
Father.
15
(John bore witness to him, and cried, "This was he of whom I
said, `He who comes after me ranks before me, for he was before
me.'")
16
And from his fulness have we all received, grace upon grace.
17
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through
Jesus Christ.
18
No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the
Father, he has made him known.
