Daily Readings - 27/12/2025

^1:1 Something which has existed since the beginning, that we have heard, and we have seen with our own eyes; that we have watched and touched with our hands: the Word, who is life-this is our subject.

^1:2 That life was made visible: we saw it and we are giving our testimony, telling you of the eternal life which was with the Father and has been made visible to us.

^1:3 What we have seen and heard we are telling you so that you too may be in union with us, as we are in union with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

^1:4 We are writing this to you to make our own joy complete.

^96:1 Sing Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth!

^96:2 Sing to Yahweh, bless his name. Proclaim his salvation day after day,

^96:3 tell of his glory among the nations, tell his marvels to every people.

^96:4 Yahweh is great, loud must be his praise, he is to be feared beyond all gods.

^96:5 Nothingness, all the gods of the nations. Yahweh himself made the heavens,

^96:6 in his presence are splendour and majesty, in his sanctuary power and beauty.

^96:7 Pay tribute to Yahweh, families of the peoples, tribute to Yahweh of glory and power,

^96:8 tribute to Yahweh of his name’s due glory. Bring out the offering, bear it before him,

^96:9 worship Yahweh in his sacred court, tremble before him, all the earth!

^96:10 Say among the nations, ‘Yahweh is king!’ Firm has he made the world, and unshakeable; he will judge each nation with strict justice.

^96:11 Let the heavens be glad, let earth rejoice, let the sea thunder and all that it holds,

^96:12 let the fields exult and all that is in them, let all the woodland trees cry out for joy,

^96:13 at the presence of Yahweh, for he comes, he comes to judge the earth, to judge the world with justice and the nations with his truth.

^20:1 It was very early on the first day of the week and still dark, when Mary of Magdala came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been moved away from the tomb

^20:2 and came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved. ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb’ she said ‘and we don’t know where they have put him.’

^20:3 So Peter set out with the other disciple to go to the tomb.

^20:4 They ran together, but the other disciple, running faster than Peter, reached the tomb first;

^20:5 he bent down and saw the linen cloths lying on the ground, but did not go in.

^20:6 Simon Peter who was following now came up, went right into the tomb, saw the linen cloths on the ground,

^20:7 and also the cloth that had been over his head; this was not with the linen cloths but rolled up in a place by itself.

^20:8 Then the other disciple who had reached the tomb first also went in; he saw and he believed.