Daily Reading for Monday, January 5th, 2026

Reading 1, John 3:11-21

¹¹ 'In all truth I tell you, we speak only about what we know and witness only to what we have seen and yet you people reject our evidence.

¹² If you do not believe me when I speak to you about earthly things, how will you believe me when I speak to you about heavenly things?

¹³ No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of man;

¹⁴ as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up

¹⁵ so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.

¹⁶ For this is how God loved the world: he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.

¹⁷ For God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but so that through him the world might be saved.

¹⁸ No one who believes in him will be judged; but whoever does not believe is judged already, because that person does not believe in the Name of God's only Son.

¹⁹ And the judgement is this: though the light has come into the world people have preferred darkness to the light because their deeds were evil.

²⁰ And indeed, everybody who does wrong hates the light and avoids it, to prevent his actions from being shown up;

²¹ but whoever does the truth comes out into the light, so that what he is doing may plainly appear as done in God.'

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 100:1-2, 3, 4, 5

¹ [Psalm For thanksgiving] Acclaim Yahweh, all the earth,

² serve Yahweh with gladness, come into his presence with songs of joy!

³ Be sure that Yahweh is God, he made us, we belong to him, his people, the flock of his sheepfold.

⁴ Come within his gates giving thanks, to his courts singing praise, give thanks to him and bless his name!

⁵ For Yahweh is good, his faithful love is everlasting, his constancy from age to age.