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St. André Bessette, Religious (Optional Memorial)

First Reading

1 John 3:22--4:6

22and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

23And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.

24All who keep his commandments abide in him, and he in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.

1Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

2By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

3and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God. This is the spirit of antichrist, of which you heard that it was coming, and now it is in the world already.

4Little children, you are of God, and have overcome them; for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

5They are of the world, therefore what they say is of the world, and the world listens to them.

6We are of God. Whoever knows God listens to us, and he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

Responsorial Psalm

Psalms 2:7-8, 10-12

7I will tell of the decree of the LORD: He said to me, “You are my son, today I have begotten you.

8Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.

10Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.

11Serve the LORD with fear, with trembling

12kiss his feet, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way; for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

Gospel

Matthew 4:12-17, 23-25

12Now when he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee;

13and leaving Nazareth he went and dwelt in Caperʹna-um by the sea, in the territory of Zebʹulun and Naphʹtali,

14that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:

15“The land of Zebʹulun and the land of Naphʹtali, toward the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—

16the people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and for those who sat in the region and shadow of death light has dawned.”

17From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

23And he went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every infirmity among the people.

24So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, and paralytics, and he healed them.

25And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapʹolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the Jordan.