OVERCOMING THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
Reading 1 John 3:22-4:6 The Son of God has come
and given us the power to know the true God
Whatever we ask
God, we shall receive, because we keep his commandments and live the kind of
life that he wants. His commandments are these: that we believe in the name of
his Son Jesus Christ and that we love one another as he told us to. Whoever
keeps his commandments lives in God and God lives in him. Universalis or Readings
We know that he
lives in us by the Spirit that he has given us. It is not every spirit, my dear
people, that you can trust; test them, to see if they come from God, there are
many false prophets, now, in the world. You can tell the spirits that come from
God by this: every spirit which acknowledges that Jesus the Christ has come in
the flesh is from God; but any spirit which will not say this of Jesus is not
from God, but is the spirit of Antichrist, whose coming you were warned about. Well,
now he is here, in the world….
The Gospel Matthew
4:12-17,23-25 The people that lived in darkness have seen a great
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Hearing that John had been arrested, Jesus
went back to Galilee, and leaving Nazareth he went and settled in Capernaum, a
lakeside town on the borders of Zebulun and Naphtali. In this way the prophecy
of Isaiah was to be fulfilled: Evangeli
‘Land of Zebulun! Land of Naphtali!
Way of the sea on the far side of
Jordan,
Galilee of the nations!
The people that lived in darkness
has seen a great light;
on those who dwell in the land and
shadow of death
a light has dawned.’
From that moment Jesus began his preaching
with the message, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is close at hand.’
May God's Holy Spirit teach us the knowledge of God. May Christ be our guide. May our Blessed Virgin Mother, Mary pray for us. May Saint Joseph pray for us. May our Guardian Angels pray for us. Pray the Holy Rosary. Hail Mary. Ave Maria.
Gospel : John 2:1-11
There was a wedding at Cana in
Galilee. The mother of Jesus was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also
been invited. When they ran out of wine, since the wine provided for the
wedding was all finished, the mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They have no wine.’
Jesus said ‘Woman, why turn to me? My hour has not come yet.’ His mother said
to the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ There were six stone water jars
standing there, meant for the ablutions that are customary among the Jews: each
could hold twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, ‘Fill the jars
with water’, and they filled them to the brim. ‘Draw some out now’ he told them
‘and take it to the steward.’ They did this; the steward tasted the water, and
it had turned into wine. Having no idea where it came from – only the
servants who had drawn the water knew – the steward called the bridegroom
and said, ‘People generally serve the best wine first, and keep the cheaper
sort till the guests have had plenty to drink; but you have kept the best wine
till now.’
This was the first of the
signs given by Jesus: it was given at Cana in Galilee. He let his glory be
seen, and his disciples believed in him.
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