Daily Readings

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 testifythat 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.In this is love brought to perfection among us,that we have confidence on the day of judgmentbecause as he is, so are we in this world.There is no fear in love,but perfect love drives out fearbecause fear has to do with punishment,and so one who fears is not yet perfect in love.

R. (see 11)  Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.O God, with your judgment endow the king,and with your justice, the king’s son;He shall govern your people with justiceand your afflicted ones with judgment.R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.The kings of Tarshish and the Isles shall offer gifts;the kings of Arabia and Seba shall bring tribute.R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.For he shall rescue the poor when he cries out,and the afflicted when he has no one to help him.He shall have pity for the lowly and the poor;the lives of the poor he shall save.R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.

R. Alleluia, alleluia.Glory to you, O Christ, proclaimed to the Gentiles.Glory to you, O Christ, believed in throughout the world.R. Alleluia, alleluia.

After the five thousand had eaten and were satisfied,Jesus made his disciples get into the boatand precede him to the other side toward Bethsaida,while he dismissed the crowd.And when he had taken leave of them,he went off to the mountain to pray.When it was evening,the boat was far out on the sea and he was alone on shore.Then he saw that they were tossed about while rowing,for the wind was against them.About the fourth watch of the night,he came toward them walking on the sea.He meant to pass by them.But when they saw him walking on the sea,they thought it was a ghost and cried out.They had all seen him and were terrified.But at once he spoke with them,“Take courage, it is I, do not be afraid!”He got into the boat with them and the wind died down.They were completely astounded.They had not understood the incident of the loaves.On the contrary, their hearts were hardened.

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-begotten Son into the worldso that we might have life through him.In this is love:not that we have loved God, but that he loved usand sent his Son as expiation for our sins.

R. (see 11)  Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.O God, with your judgment endow the king,and with your justice, the king’s son;He shall govern your people with justiceand your afflicted ones with judgment.R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.The mountains shall yield peace for the people,and the hills justice.He shall defend the afflicted among the people,save the children of the poor.R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.Justice shall flower in his days,and profound peace, till the moon be no more.May he rule from sea to sea,and from the River to the ends of the earth.R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.

R. Alleluia, alleluia.The Lord has sent me to bring glad tidings to the poorand to proclaim liberty to captives.R. Alleluia, alleluia.

When Jesus saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them,for they were like sheep without a shepherd;and he began to teach them many things.By now it was already late and his disciples approached him and said,“This is a deserted place and it is already very late.Dismiss them so that they can goto the surrounding farms and villagesand buy themselves something to eat.”He said to them in reply,“Give them some food yourselves.”But they said to him,“Are we to buy two hundred days’ wages worth of foodand give it to them to eat?”He asked them, “How many loaves do you have?  Go and see.”And when they had found out they said,“Five loaves and two fish.”So he gave orders to have them sit down in groups on the green grass.The people took their places in rows by hundreds and by fifties.Then, taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven,he said the blessing, broke the loaves, and gave them to his disciplesto set before the people;he also divided the two fish among them all.They all ate and were satisfied.And they picked up twelve wicker baskets full of fragmentsand what was left of the fish.Those who ate of the loaves were five thousand men.

Beloved:We receive from him whatever we ask,because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.And his commandment is this:we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ,and love one another just as he commanded us.Those who keep his commandments remain in him, and he in them,and the way we know that he remains in usis from the Spirit whom he gave us.Beloved, do not trust every spiritbut test the spirits to see whether they belong to God,because many false prophets have gone out into the world.This is how you can know the Spirit of God:every spirit that acknowledges Jesus Christ come in the fleshbelongs to God,and every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesusdoes not belong to God.This is the spirit of the antichristwho, as you heard, is to come,but in fact is already in the world.You belong to God, children, and you have conquered them,for the one who is in youis greater than the one who is in the world.They belong to the world;accordingly, their teaching belongs to the world,and the world listens to them.We belong to God, and anyone who knows God listens to us,while anyone who does not belong to God refuses to hear us.This is how we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit. 

R. (8ab) I will give you all the nations for an inheritance.The LORD said to me, “you are my Son;this day I have begotten you.Ask of me and I will give youthe nations for an inheritanceand the ends of the earth for your possession.”R. I will give you all the nations for an inheritance.And now, O kings, give heed;take warning, you rulers of the earth.Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice before him;with trembling rejoice.R. I will give you all the nations for an inheritance. 

R. Alleluia, alleluia.Jesus proclaimed the Gospel of the Kingdomand cured every disease among the people.R. Alleluia, alleluia. 

When Jesus heard that John had been arrested,he withdrew to Galilee. He left Nazareth and went to live in Capernaum by the sea,in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,that what had been said through Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled:Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali,the way to the sea, beyond the Jordan,Galilee of the Gentiles,the people who sit in darknesshave seen a great light,on those dwelling in a land overshadowed by deathlight has arisen.From that time on, Jesus began to preach and say,“Repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.”He went around all of Galilee,teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom,and curing every disease and illness among the people. His fame spread to all of Syria,and they brought to him all who were sick with various diseasesand racked with pain,those who were possessed, lunatics, and paralytics,and he cured them. And great crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, and Judea,and from beyond the Jordan followed him.