Daily Reading for Thursday, December 30th, 2021

Reading 1, First John 2:12-17

¹² I am writing to you, children, because your sins have been forgiven through his name.

¹³ I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know the One who has existed since the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, because you have overcome the Evil One.

¹⁴ I have written to you, children, because you have come to know the Father. I have written to you, parents, because you have come to know the One who has existed since the beginning. I have written to you, young people, because you are strong, and God's word remains in you, and you have overcome the Evil One.

¹⁵ Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone does love the world, the love of the Father finds no place in him,

¹⁶ because everything there is in the world -- disordered bodily desires, disordered desires of the eyes, pride in possession -- is not from the Father but is from the world.

¹⁷ And the world, with all its disordered desires, is passing away. But whoever does the will of God remains for ever.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 96:7-8, 8-9, 10

⁷ Give to Yahweh, families of nations, give to Yahweh glory and power,

⁸ give to Yahweh the glory due to his name! Bring an offering and enter his courts,

⁹ adore Yahweh in the splendour of his holiness. Tremble before him, all the earth.

¹⁰ Say among the nations, 'Yahweh is king.' The world is set firm, it cannot be moved. He will judge the nations with justice.