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Reading 1 John 2:3-11
Anyone who loves his
brother is living in the light
We can be sure that we know God only by keeping his
commandments. Anyone who says, ‘I know him’, and does not keep his
commandments, is a liar, refusing to admit the truth. But when anyone does obey
what he has said, God’s love comes to perfection in him. We can be sure that we
are in God only when the one who claims to be living in him is living the same
kind of life as Christ lived. My dear people, this is not a new commandment
that I am writing to tell you, but an old commandment that you were given from
the beginning, the original commandment which was the message brought to you. Yet
in another way, what I am writing to you, and what is being carried out in your
lives as it was in his, is a new commandment; because the night is over and the
real light is already shining.....
Gospel Luke
2:22-35 'You
have prepared a light to enlighten the pagans'
When the day came for them to be purified
as laid down by the Law of Moses, the parents of Jesus took him up to Jerusalem
to present him to the Lord – observing what stands written in the Law of
the Lord: Every first-born male must be consecrated to the Lord –
and also to offer in sacrifice, in accordance with what is said in the Law of
the Lord, a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons. Now in Jerusalem there
was a man named Simeon. He was an upright and devout man; he looked forward to
Israel’s comforting and the Holy Spirit rested on him. It had been revealed to
him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death until he had set eyes on the
Christ of the Lord. Prompted by the Spirit he came to the Temple and when the
parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the Law required, he took
him into his arms and blessed God; and he said:
‘Now,
Master, you can let your servant go in peace, just as you promised; because my
eyes have seen the salvation which you have prepared for all the nations to see,
a light to enlighten the pagans and the glory of your people Israel.’
As the child’s father and mother stood
there wondering at the things that were being said about him, Simeon blessed
them and said to Mary his mother, ‘You see this child: he is destined for the
fall and for the rising of many in Israel, destined to be a sign that is
rejected – and a sword will pierce your own soul too – so that the
secret thoughts of many may be laid bare.’
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