Mass Readings for January 6, 2024

1 John 5:5-13
Psalms 147:12-15,19-20
Mark 1:7-11

1 John 5:5-13
(5) Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? (6) This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. (7) For there are three who testify: (8) the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and the three agree as one. (9) If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God’s testimony which he has testified concerning his Son. (10) He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son. (11) The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. (12) He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have God’s Son doesn’t have the life. (13) These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

Psalms 147:12-15,19-20
(12) Praise Yahweh, Jerusalem! Praise your God, Zion! (13) For he has strengthened the bars of your gates. He has blessed your children within you. (14) He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat. (15) He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word runs very swiftly. (19) He shows his word to Jacob; his statutes and his ordinances to Israel. (20) He has not done this for just any nation. They don’t know his ordinances. Praise Yah!

Mark 1:7-11
(7) He preached, saying, “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen. (8) I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.” (9) In those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan. (10) Immediately coming up from the water, he saw the heavens parting, and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. (11) A voice came out of the sky, “You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”