Léctio Primæ Epístolæ beáti Ioánnis Apóstoli (3,14-18)
Carissimi: Nos scimus quóniam transívimus de morte in vitam, quóniam dilígimus fratres; qui non díligit, manet in morte. Omnis, qui odit fratrem suum, homicída est, et scitis quóniam omnis homicída non habet vitam ætérnam in semetípso manéntem. In hoc nóvimus caritátem, quóniam ille pro nobis ánimam suam pósuit; et nos debémus pro frátribus ánimas pónere. Qui habúerit substántiam mundi et víderit fratrem suum necésse habére et cláuserit víscera sua ab eo, quómodo cáritas Dei manet in eo? Filíoli, non diligámus verbo nec lingua sed in ópere et veritáte.
Beloved: We know that we are translated from death to life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not, abideth in death. Whosoever hateth his brother, is a murderer. And you know that no murderer hath life everlasting abiding in himself. In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath yielded his life for us: and we ought to yield our lives for the brethren. He that shall have the substance of the world, and shall see his brother have need, and shall shut his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed and truth.
