Reading I
Children, it is the last hour;
and just as you heard that the antichrist was coming,
so now many antichrists have appeared.
Thus we know this is the last hour.
They went out from us, but they were not really of our number;
if they had been, they would have remained with us.
Their desertion shows that none of them was of our number.
But you have the anointing that comes from the Holy One,
and you all have knowledge.
I write to you not because you do not know the truth
but because you do, and because every lie is alien to the truth.
This calander year is coming to its end, come let us rejoice! With tomorrow is the promise of a fresh start…a new year…. come let us rejoice! Even with all the scandals, all the plagues which have beseeched us through these past several years… come let us rejoice! With the threat of global wide chaos and governments run amuck with power… come let us rejoice!
For it is truly as it has been written, it is truly as it has been said, there will be many who will come to seperate us from the Truth, many an antichrist who will try their best to destroy what the good Lord has revealed to us as being Truth. As Christians….as believers in the God made-man, we have to rejoice in the knowledge that God is Truth. He cannot change from that Which He Is. This knowledge coupled with what has been handed down from genenration to generation that is based on this Truth, this Tradition which is rooted in Christ. We must rejoice! We are a Christian people, Christ is Our Hope! We cannot allow ourselves for a moment to be deceived by what the world does….what the world tells us….for the world is a malicious breeding ground of contempt and lies…I implore you, dear friends, do not believe a word of what it says. Listen to the Lord….through His Immaculate Bride, the Holy Mother Church…keep your peace about you and rejoice, these days of Christmas are not quite done.
For unto us a Child has been born, and we can find Him lying in a manger, wrapped in swaddling clothes….He is the King of King! The Lord of Lords! Come let us rejoice!…Come let us adore Him!