Daily Reading for Tuesday, December 30th, 2025

Reading 1, First John 2:12-17

¹² I am writing to you, children, because your sins have been forgiven through his name.

¹³ I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know the One who has existed since the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, because you have overcome the Evil One.

¹⁴ I have written to you, children, because you have come to know the Father. I have written to you, parents, because you have come to know the One who has existed since the beginning. I have written to you, young people, because you are strong, and God's word remains in you, and you have overcome the Evil One.

¹⁵ Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone does love the world, the love of the Father finds no place in him,

¹⁶ because everything there is in the world -- disordered bodily desires, disordered desires of the eyes, pride in possession -- is not from the Father but is from the world.

¹⁷ And the world, with all its disordered desires, is passing away. But whoever does the will of God remains for ever.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 96:7-8, 8-9, 10

⁷ Let the sea thunder, and all that it holds, the world and all who live in it.

⁸ Let the rivers clap their hands, and the mountains shout for joy together,

⁹ at Yahweh's approach, for he is coming to judge the earth; he will judge the world with saving justice and the nations with fairness.