SECOND READING

Second Reading

1 John 3:1-2 (JB)

A reading from the first letter of St John

We shall see God as he is.

Think of the love that the Father has lavished on us,

by letting us be called God's children;

and that is what we are.

Because the world refused to acknowledge him,

therefore it does not acknowledge us.

My dear people, we are already the children of God

but what we are to be in the future has not yet been revealed;

all we know is, that when it is revealed

we shall be like him

because we shall see him as he really is.

The word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.