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Pentecost Sunday, Mass during the Day, Option 2

John 14:15-16, 23b-26

Jesus said to his disciples:
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
And I will ask the Father,
and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always.

“Whoever loves me will keep my word,
and my Father will love him,
and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.
Those who do not love me do not keep my words;
yet the word you hear is not mine
but that of the Father who sent me.

“I have told you this while I am with you.
The Advocate, the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name,
will teach you everything
and remind you of all that I told you.”



The original recording of the Catena Aurea is taken from https://librivox.org/author/1199 and is in the public domain.

Throughout the Octave of Christmas, we will look at the parts of the Gospel for Christmas Day in sequence. Today’s exposition will focus on the words:

No one has ever seen God.

The only Son, God, who is at the Father’s side,

has revealed him.

Throughout the Octave of Christmas, we will look at the parts of the Gospel for Christmas Day in sequence. Today’s exposition will focus on the words:

John testified to him and cried out, saying,

“This was he of whom I said,

‘The one who is coming after me ranks ahead of me

because he existed before me.’”

From his fullness we have all received,

grace in place of grace,

because while the law was given through Moses,

grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Throughout the Octave of Christmas, we will look at the parts of the Gospel for Christmas Day in sequence. Today’s exposition will focus on the words:

And the Word became flesh

and made his dwelling among us,

and we saw his glory,

the glory as of the Father’s only Son,

full of grace and truth.

Throughout the Octave of Christmas, we will look at the parts of the Gospel for Christmas Day in sequence. Today’s exposition will focus on the words:

He was in the world,

and the world came to be through him,

but the world did not know him.

He came to what was his own,

but his own people did not accept him.

But to those who did accept him

he gave power to become children of God,

to those who believe in his name,

who were born not by natural generation

nor by human choice nor by a man’s decision

but of God.

Throughout the Octave of Christmas, we will look at the parts of the Gospel for Christmas Day in sequence. Today’s exposition will focus on the words:

A man named John was sent from God.

He came for testimony, to testify to the light,

so that all might believe through him.

He was not the light,

but came to testify to the light.

The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.