A VOICE THAT CRIES IN THE WILDERNESS
JAN. 2: ONE IS COMING WHO EXISTED BEFORE ME:Universalis
Memorial of Ss Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, bishops and doctors of the church.
CI: First Reading 1 John 2:22-28 The
anointing he gave you teaches you everything
The man who
denies that Jesus is the Christ – he is the liar, he is Antichrist; and he
is denying the Father as well as the Son, because no one who has the Father can
deny the Son, and to acknowledge the Son is to have the Father as well. Keep
alive in yourselves what you were taught in the beginning: as long as what you
were taught in the beginning is alive in you, you will live in the Son and in
the Father; and what is promised to you by his own promise is eternal life.
This is all that
I am writing to you about the people who are trying to lead you astray. But you
have not lost the anointing that he gave you, and you do not need anyone to
teach you; the anointing he gave teaches you everything; you are anointed with
truth, not with a lie, and as it has taught you, so you must stay in him.
Live in Christ,
then, my children, so that if he appears, we may have full confidence, and not
turn from him in shame at his coming.
Responsorial Psalm: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of
our God (Psa. 97/98)
Gospel John 1:19-28 'One is coming after me who existed before me'
CDR: This
is how John appeared as a witness. When the Jews sent priests and Levites from
Jerusalem to ask him, ‘Who are you?’ he not only declared, but he declared
quite openly, ‘I am not the Christ.’ ‘Well then,’ they asked ‘are you Elijah?’
‘I am not’ he said. ‘Are you the Prophet?’ He answered, ‘No.’ So they said to
him, ‘Who are you? We must take back an answer to those who sent us. What have
you to say about yourself?’
So John said, ‘I am, as Isaiah prophesied: a
voice that cries in the wilderness: Make
a straight way for the Lord.’
Now
these men had been sent by the Pharisees, and they put this further question to
him, ‘Why are you baptising if you are not the Christ, and not Elijah, and not
the prophet?’ John replied, ‘I baptise with water; but there stands among
you – unknown to you – the one who is coming after me; and I am not
fit to undo his sandal-strap.’ This happened at Bethany, on the far side of the
Jordan, where John was baptising.
Jesus I trust in you. Virgin Mary pray for me. Saint Joseph pray for me. God’s Angels and Saints pray for me. Ss. Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen pray for me. My Guardian Angel pray for me.
Pray the Holy Rosary: Ave Maria. Hail Mary full of grace.
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