Saint Raymond of Penyafort, Priest

4:19Therefore, let us love God, for God first loved us. 20If anyone says that he loves God, but hates his brother, then he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother, whom he does see, in what way can he love God, whom he does not see? 21And this is the commandment that we have from God, that he who loves God must also love his brother.

5:1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And everyone who loves God, who provides that birth, also loves him who has been born of God. 2In this way, we know that we love those born of God: when we love God and do his commandments. 3For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not heavy. 4For all that is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world: our faith.

1A Psalm according to Solomon.

2Give your judgment, O God, to the king, and your justice to the king’s son, to judge your people with justice and your poor with judgment.

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14He will redeem their souls from usuries and from iniquity, and their names shall be honorable in his sight.

15And he will live, and to him will be given from the gold of Arabia, and by him they will always adore. They will bless him all day long.

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17May his name be blessed forever; may his name remain before the sun. And all the tribes of the earth will be blessed in him. All nations will magnify him.

14And Jesus returned, in the power of the Spirit, into Galilee. And his fame spread throughout the entire region. 15And he taught in their synagogues, and he was magnified by everyone. 16And he went to Nazareth, where he had been raised. And he entered into the synagogue, according to his custom, on the Sabbath day. And he rose up to read. 17And the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. And as he unrolled the book, he found the place where it was written: 18“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because of this, he has anointed me. He has sent me to evangelize the poor, to heal the contrite of heart, 19to preach forgiveness to captives and sight to the blind, to release the broken into forgiveness, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of retribution.” 20And when he had rolled up the book, he returned it to the minister, and he sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him. 21Then he began to say to them, “On this day, this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” 22And everyone gave testimony to him. And they wondered at the words of grace that proceeded from his mouth. And they said, “Is this not the son of Joseph?”