December 31, 2014 Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas
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Reading 1 1 JN 2:18-21
Children, it
is the last hour and just as you heard that the anti-Christ was coming, so now
many anti-Christs 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 96and1-2, 11-12, 13
R. 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 1and1-18
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.