First Reading
1 John 4:11-18
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
11My dearest, if God has so loved us; we also ought to love one another.
12No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his charity is perfected in us.
13In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us: because he has given us of his spirit.
14And we have seen, and do testify, that the Father has sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world.
15Whoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.
16And we have known, and have believed the charity, which God has to us. God is charity: and he that remains in charity, remains in God, and God in him.
17In this is the charity of God perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment: because as he is, we also are in this world.
18Fear is not in charity: but perfect charity casteth out fear, because fear has pain. And he that feareth, is not perfected in charity.