THIS WAS HE OF WHOM I SAID

THE LAST HOUR

First Reading 1John 2:18-21  You have been anointed by the Holy One

Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that the antichrist was coming, so now many antichrists 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: 95 Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice!

Gospel John 1:1-18: The Word was made flesh, and lived among us

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 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 Son, God, who is at the Father’s side, has revealed him.

AELF C'EST CELUI DONT J'AI DIT - C’EST LA DERNIÈRE HEURE

Évangile Jean 1,1-18 « La Parole s’est fait chair »

Au commencement était la Parole, et la Parole était avec Dieu, et la Parole était Dieu. Elle était au commencement avec Dieu. Toutes choses ont été faites par elle, et rien de ce qui a été fait n'a été fait sans elle. En elle était la vie, et la vie était la lumière des hommes. La lumière luit dans les ténèbres, et les ténèbres ne l'ont point reçue.

Il y eut un homme envoyé de Dieu: son nom était Jean. Il vint pour servir de témoin, pour rendre témoignage à la lumière, afin que tous crussent par lui. Il n'était pas la lumière, mais il parut pour rendre témoignage à la lumière.

Cette lumière était la véritable lumière, qui, en venant dans le monde, éclaire tout homme. Elle était dans le monde, et le monde a été fait par elle, et le monde ne l'a point connue. Elle est venue chez les siens, et les siens ne l'ont point reçue. Mais à tous ceux qui l'ont reçue, à ceux qui croient en son nom, elle a donné le pouvoir de devenir enfants de Dieu, lesquels sont nés, non du sang, ni de la volonté de la chair, ni de la volonté de l'homme, mais de Dieu. Et la parole a été faite chair, et elle a habité parmi nous, pleine de grâce et de vérité; et nous avons contemplé sa gloire, une gloire comme la gloire du Fils unique venu du Père.

Jean lui a rendu témoignage, et s'est écrié: «C'est celui dont j'ai dit: Celui qui vient après moi m'a précédé, car il était avant moi». Et nous avons tous reçu de sa plénitude, et grâce pour grâce; car la loi a été donnée par Moïse, la grâce et la vérité sont venues par Jésus Christ. Personne n'a jamais vu Dieu; le Fils unique, qui est dans le sein du Père, est celui qui l'a fait connaître.

Lord Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, the Light of the world. I trust in you. Lord, you are my light. Blessed Virgin Mary pray for me. Saint Joseph pray for me. My Angel Guardian pray for me.

Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine intercession was left unaided. I place my confidence in you my Blessed Mother.

Seigneur Jésus-Christ, Le Verbe incarné, Lumière du monde, j'ai confiance en toi. Seigneur, tu es ma lumière. Sainte Vierge Marie, priez pour moi. Saint Joseph, priez pour moi. Mon Ange Gardien, priez pour moi.

Souvenez-vous, ô Vierge Marie, qu'on n'a jamais entendu dire que celui qui eu recours à votre protection, imploré votre secours ou réclamé votre intercession est abandonné. Je place ma confiance en vous, ô Sainte Mère.