DAILY GOSPEL Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. John 6:68 Saturday, 10 January 2015 Saturday after Epiphany Saint(s) of the day : St. Léonie Aviat, Religious (1844-1914), St. William of Bourges, Archbishop († 1209) See commentary below or click here Saint Augustine : He must increase; I must decrease First Letter of John 5:14-21. Beloved: We have this confidence in him that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, we know that what we have asked him for is ours. If anyone sees his brother sinning, if the sin is not deadly, he should pray to God and he will give him life. This is only for those whose sin is not deadly. There is such a thing as deadly sin, about which I do not say that you should pray. All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that is not deadly. We know that no one begotten by God sins; but the one begotten by God he protects, and the evil one cannot touch him. We know that we belong to God, and the whole world is under the power of the evil one. We also know that the Son of God has come and has given us discernment to know the one who is true. And we are in the one who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. Children, be on your guard against idols. Psalms 149(148):1-2.3-4.5-6a.9b. Sing to the LORD a new song of praise in the assembly of the faithful. Let Israel be glad in their maker, let the children of Zion rejoice in their king. Let them praise his name in the festive dance, let them sing praise to him with timbrel and harp. For the LORD loves his people, and he adorns the lowly with victory. Let the faithful exult in glory; let them sing for joy upon their couches; Let the high praises of God be in their throats. This is the glory of all his faithful. Alleluia! Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 3:22-30. Jesus and his disciples went into the region of Judea, where he spent some time with them baptizing. John was also baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was an abundance of water there, and people came to be baptized, for John had not yet been imprisoned. Now a dispute arose between the disciples of John and a Jew about ceremonial washings. So they came to John and said to him, Rabbi, the one who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you testified, here he is baptizing and everyone is coming to him. John answered and said, No one can receive anything except what has been given him from heaven. You yourselves can testify that I said (that) I am not the Messiah, but that I was sent before him. The one who has the bride is the bridegroom; the best man, who stands and listens for him, rejoices greatly at the bridegrooms voice. So this joy of mine has been made complete. He must increase; I must decrease. Copyright © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, USCCB Commentary of the day : Saint Augustine (354-430), Bishop of Hippo (North Africa) and Doctor of the Church Sermons on Saint John’s Gospel, no.14, 5 ; CL 36, 143-144 He must increase; I must decrease May the glory of God increase in us and our own glory decrease that even our glory may increase in God! For this is what the apostle says, this is what Holy Scripture says: Let whoever glories, glory in the Lord (1Cor 1,31). Will you glory in yourself? You will grow; but grow worse in your evil. And someone who grows worse is actually growing less. Let God, then, who is ever perfect, grow, and let him grow in you. For the more you know and understand God, the more God seems to be growing in you even though he himself does not grow, being ever perfect. You understood something a little yesterday, you understand better today, tomorrow you will understand even more: it is the very light of God increasing in you as if thus God, who is ever perfect, were increasing. Someone is blind whose eyes have just been healed. This person begins to see a glimmer of light, the next day he sees more, and the third day still more. To such a person the light would seem to grow; yet the light is perfect, whether he see it or not. This is also how it is with the inner self: it makes progress in God and God appears to be increasing in it, whereas it is growing less in itself so as to fall from its own glory and arise in the glory of God.
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