Saturday, December 31, 2011 {The Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas}

REFLECTION FOR TODAY
Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.
-- St Therese of Lisieux

READINGS FOR TODAY
First Reading: 1 John 2:18-21
(The Enemy of Christ)
18 My children, the end is near! You were told that the Enemy of Christ would come; and now many enemies of Christ have already appeared, and so we know that the end is near.
19 These people really did not belong to our fellowship, and that is why they left us; if they had belonged to our fellowship, they would have stayed with us. But they left so that it might be clear that none of them really belonged to us.