Official Translation
Reading 1 – Isaiah 52.7-10
How beautiful on the mountains
are the feet of they who bring good news,
who announce peace, who bring good news,
who announce a Savior, who says to Zion,
“Your God reigns!”
The voice of your watchmen!
They lift up the voice; together they sing,
for they shall see eye to eye,
when the Lord returns to Zion.
Break out in joy, sing together,
you ruins of Jerusalem;
for the Lord has comforted his people,
he has redeemed Jerusalem.
The Lord has made bare his holy arm
in the eyes of all the nations,
and all the ends of the earth have seen
the salvation of our God.
Responsorial – Psalm 98.1, 2-3, 3-4, 5-6 R. 3c
R. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Sing to the Lord a new song,
for he has done marvelous things!
His right hand has worked salvation for him,
his holy arm.
R. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
The Lord has made known his salvation.
He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness
toward the house of Israel.
R. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
All the ends of the earth have seen
the salvation of our God.
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!
Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!
R. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Sing praise to the Lord with the harp,
with the harp and the melodious voice.
With trumpets and sound of the ram’s horn,
make a joyful noise before the King, the Lord.
R. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Reading 2 – Hebrews 1.1-6
Brothers and sisters:
God, having in the past spoken to the fathers
through the prophets
at partially and in various ways,
has in these final days
spoken to us by his Son,
whom he appointed heir of all things,
through whom also he made the universe.
His Son is the radiance of his glory,
the very image of his substance,
and upholding all things by his mighty word,
when he had himself purified us of our sins,
he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high;
having become so far above the angels,
as he has inherited a more excellent name than theirs.
For to which of the angels did he ever say,
“You are my Son. Today have I begotten you”?
Or even,
“I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son”?
Or even, when he brings the firstborn into the world,
“Let all the angels of God worship him”?
Gospel – John 1.1-18 or 1.1-5, 9-14
In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through him.
Without him nothing was made that has been made.
In him was life, and the life was the light of humans.
The light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness has not overcome it.
There came a man, sent from God,
whose name was John.
He came as a witness, that he might testify about the light,
that all might believe through him.
He was not the light,
but was sent that he might testify about the light.
The true light that enlightens everyone
was coming into the world.
He was in the world,
and the world was made through him,
but the world did not recognize him.
He came to his own,
and those who were his own did not receive him.
But as many as received him,
to them he gave the right
to become God’s children,
to those who believe in his name:
who were born not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh,
nor of the will of man,
but of God.
The Word became flesh, and lived among us.
We saw his glory,
such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father,
full of grace and truth.
John testified about him.
He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said,
‘He who comes after me has surpasses me,
for he was before me.’”
From his fullness we all received grace instead of grace.
For the law was given through Moses,
but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
No one has ever seen God.
The one and only Son, God, who is in the bosom of the Father,
has revealed him.
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