Gospel of 11 January 2019

First letter of St. John the apostle 5,5-13.
And who is it that wins the world if not who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
This is he who came with water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with water only, but with water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is the truth.
For three are those who testify:
the Spirit, the water and the blood, and these three agree.
If we accept the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater; and the testimony of God is that which he gave to his Son.
Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe in God makes him a liar, because he does not believe in the testimony that God has given to his Son.
And the testimony is this: God has given us eternal life and this life is in his Son.
Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
This I have written to you because you know that you have eternal life, you who believe in the name of the Son of God.

Psalms 147,12-13.14-15.19-20.
Glorify the Lord, Jerusalem,
praise, Zion, your God.
Because he reinforced the bars of your doors,
among you he has blessed your children.

He has made peace within your borders
and sates you with wheat flower.
Send his word to earth,
his message runs fast.

He announces his word to Jacob,
its laws and decrees to Israel.
So he didn't do with any other people,
he did not manifest his precepts to others.

From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Luke 5,12-16.
One day Jesus was in a city and a man covered in leprosy saw him and threw himself at his feet praying: "Lord, if you want, you can heal me."
Jesus stretched out his hand and touched it saying: «I want it, be healed!». And immediately the leprosy disappeared from him.
He told him not to tell anyone: "Go, show yourself to the priest and make the offer for your purification, as Moses ordered, to serve as a testimony for them."
His fame spread even more; large crowds came to listen to him and be healed of their infirmities.
But Jesus withdrew to solitary places to pray.