Catholic Epistle
A Reading from Epistle 1 of St. John .
May his blessing be upon us.
Amen.
1 John 2 : 18 - 23
Chapter 2
| 18 | Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour.
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| 19 | They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
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| 20 | But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.
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| 21 | I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
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| 22 | Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.
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| 23 | Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
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Do not love the world or the things in the world.
The world passes away, and its desires; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
Amen.
