December 31st : First reading You have been anointed by the Holy One A reading from the first letter of St.John 2:18-21

 December 31st :  First reading 

You have been anointed by the Holy One

A reading from the first letter of St.John 2:18-21 

Children, these are the last days;

you were told that an Antichrist must come,

and now several antichrists have already appeared;

we know from this that these are the last days.

Those rivals of Christ came out of our own number, but they had never really belonged;

if they had belonged, they would have stayed with us;

but they left us, to prove that not one of them

ever belonged to us.

But you have been anointed by the Holy One,

and have all received the knowledge.

It is not because you do not know the truth that I am writing to you

but rather because you know it already

and know that no lie can come from the truth.

The Word of the Lord.