Daily Word of God
“July 29: Saint Martha, Mary and Lazarus (Jn 11:19-27)”
I still believe that you are Christ, the Son of God.
Reading 1: 1 Jn 4, 7-16
If we love one another, God remains in us.
Excerpt from the first letter of Saint John the Apostle.
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Whoever loves has been born of God, and he knows God.
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.
9 God’s love for us was revealed like this: God sent his only Son into the world so that through his Son we might have life.
10 Love is this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God has loved us so much, we must also love one another.
12 God, no one has ever seen him. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love in us becomes perfect.
13 Based on this, we know that we remain in him, and he in us: that is, he has given us his Spirit.
14 As for us, we have seen and testify that: The Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him and he in God.
16 And we, we have known the love of God in us, and have believed in that love. God is love: whoever remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
Response: Ps 33, 2-3.4-5.6-7.8-9.10-11 (R. c.9a)
R.See how good the Lord is.
2I will never cease to praise the Lord, his song of praise never ceases on my lips.3My soul boasts of the Lord let the poor hear me speak and rejoice.
R.See how good the Lord is.
4Let us praise the Lord together, we sing praises to his name together.5I sought the Lord, and he answered me, delivered me from all my fears.
R.See how good the Lord is.
6Those who look to the Lord will be joyful and glad, never ashamed or disgraced.7This poor man cried out and the Lord heard him, saved him from all his troubles.
R.See how good the Lord is.
8The angel of the Lord encamps around to deliver those who fear him.9See how good the Lord is: happy are those who take refuge in him!
R.See how good the Lord is.
10Fear the Lord, you his holy people, for those who fear him lack nothing.11The rich have to be poor and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack nothing.
R.See how good the Lord is.
Gospel: Jn 11, 19-27
19 At that time, many Jews came to console Martha and Mary, because their brother Lazarus had just died.
20 As soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, Martha went out to meet him. But Mary stayed at home.
21 Martha said to Jesus: "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 But now I know: Whatever you ask of God, he will give it to you."
23 Jesus said: “Your brother will rise again!”
24 Martha said: “I know he will rise again, when the dead rise again on the last day.”
25 Jesus said: "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.
26 And whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
27 Martha answered: “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.”
Amen
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