Daily Reading for Monday, January 3rd, 2011

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Reading 1, 1 Jn 3:22-4:6

²² and whatever we ask we shall receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what is acceptable to him.

⁶ We are from God; whoever recognises God listens to us; anyone who is not from God refuses to listen to us. This is how we can distinguish the spirit of truth from the spirit of falsehood.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 98:1, 3-4, 5-6

¹ [Psalm] Sing a new song to Yahweh, for he has performed wonders, his saving power is in his right hand and his holy arm.

³ mindful of his faithful love and his constancy to the House of Israel. The whole wide world has seen the saving power of our God.

⁴ Acclaim Yahweh, all the earth, burst into shouts of joy!

⁵ Play to Yahweh on the harp, to the sound of instruments;

⁶ to the sound of trumpet and horn, acclaim the presence of the King.

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Gospel, Mt 4:12-17, 23-25

¹² Hearing that John had been arrested he withdrew to Galilee,

¹³ and leaving Nazara he went and settled in Capernaum, beside the lake, on the borders of Zebulun and Naphtali.

¹⁴ This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah:

¹⁵ Land of Zebulun! Land of Naphtali! Way of the sea beyond Jordan. Galilee of the nations!

¹⁶ The people that lived in darkness have seen a great light; on those who lived in a country of shadow dark as death a light has dawned.

¹⁷ From then onwards Jesus began his proclamation with the message, 'Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven is close at hand.'

²³ He went round the whole of Galilee teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and curing all kinds of disease and illness among the people.

²⁴ His fame spread throughout Syria, and those who were suffering from diseases and painful complaints of one kind or another, the possessed, epileptics, the paralysed, were all brought to him, and he cured them.

²⁵ Large crowds followed him, coming from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judaea and Transjordan.