TO US A SAVIOUR IS BORN

YOU ARE MY SON, TODAY I HAVE BECOME YOUR FATHER: Universalis 

Reading  Isaiah 52:7-10  Rejoice, for the Lord is consoling his people 

How beautiful on the mountains, are the feet of one who brings good news, who heralds peace, brings happiness, proclaims salvation, and tells Zion, ‘Your God is king!’

Listen! Your watchmen raise their voices, they shout for joy together, for they see the Lord face to face, as he returns to Zion.  Break into shouts of joy together, you ruins of Jerusalem; for the Lord is consoling his people, redeeming Jerusalem.

 

The Lord bares his holy arm in the sight of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see

the salvation of our God.

Responsorial Psalm:  

  

All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

 

Second Reading Hebrews 1:1-6  God has spoken to us through his Son

At various times in the past and in various different ways, God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets; but in our own time, the last days, he has spoken to us through his Son, the Son that he has appointed to inherit everything and through whom he made everything there is. He is the radiant light of God’s glory and the perfect copy of his nature, sustaining the universe by his powerful command; and now that he has destroyed the defilement of sin, he has gone to take his place in heaven at the right hand of divine Majesty. So he is now as far above the angels as the title which he has inherited is higher than their own name.

God has never said to any angel: You are my Son, today I have become your father; or: I will be a father to him and he a son to me. Again, when he brings the First-Born into the world, he says: Let all the angels of God worship him.

 

Gospel John 1:1-8 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 with God in the beginning. Through him all things came to be, not one thing had its being but through him. All that came to be had life in him and that life was the light of men, a light that shines in the dark, a light that darkness could not overpower.

A man came, sent by God. His name was John. He came as a witness, as a witness to speak for the light, so that everyone might believe through him. He was not the light, only a witness to speak for the light.

The Word was the true light that enlightens all men; and he was coming into the world. He was in the world that had its being through him, and the world did not know him. He came to his own domain and his own people did not accept him. But to all who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to all who believe in the name of him who was born not out of human stock or urge of the flesh or will of man but of God himself.

The Word was made flesh, he lived among us, and we saw his glory, the glory that is his as the only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. John appears as his witness. He proclaims:

‘This is the one of whom I said:

He who comes after me ranks before me because he existed before me.’ Indeed, from his fullness we have, all of us, received  yes, grace in return for grace, since, though the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth have come through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God; it is the only Son, who is nearest to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.

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Évangile Jean 1, 1-18 « Le Verbe s’est fait chair, il a habité parmi nous » 

Au commencement était le Verbe, et le Verbe était auprès de Dieu, et le Verbe était Dieu. Il était au commencement auprès de Dieu. C’est par lui que tout est venu à l’existence, et rien de ce qui s’est fait ne s’est fait sans lui. En lui était la vie, et la vie était la lumière des hommes ; la lumière brille dans les ténèbres, et les ténèbres ne l’ont pas arrêtée.

Il y eut un homme envoyé par Dieu ; son nom était Jean. Il est venu comme témoin, pour rendre témoignage à la Lumière, afin que tous croient par lui. Cet homme n’était pas la Lumière, mais il était là pour rendre témoignage à la Lumière.

 

Le Verbe était la vraie Lumière, qui éclaire tout homme en venant dans le monde. Il était dans le monde, et le monde était venu par lui à l’existence, mais le monde ne l’a pas reconnu. Il est venu chez lui, et les siens ne l’ont pas reçu. Mais à tous ceux qui l’ont reçu, il a donné de pouvoir devenir enfants de Dieu, eux qui croient en son nom. Ils ne sont pas nés du sang, ni d’une volonté charnelle, ni d’une volonté d’homme : ils sont nés de Dieu.

Et le Verbe s’est fait chair, il a habité parmi nous, et nous avons vu sa gloire, la gloire qu’il tient de son Père comme  Fils unique, plein de grâce et de vérité.

Jean le Baptiste lui rend témoignage en proclamant : « C’est de lui que j’ai dit : Celui qui vient derrière moi est passé devant moi, car avant moi il était. »'

Tous, nous avons eu part à sa plénitude, nous avons reçu grâce après grâce ; car la Loi fut donnée par Moïse, la grâce et la vérité sont venues par Jésus Christ. Dieu, personne ne l’a jamais vu ; le Fils unique, lui qui est Dieu, lui qui est dans le sein du Père, c’est lui qui l’a fait connaître.

MERRY CHRISTMAS - JOYEUX NOEL

Beautiful Savior To our Saviour Jesus Christ

Hail Thou Star of Ocean In honor of our Blessed Mother, Virgin Mary