Daily Mass Readings for May 18, 2025: Gospel — Jo 13,31-35

2 ¹ After they had proclaimed the good news in that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, to Iconium, and to Antioch. 2 ² They strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, “We must enter the kingdom of God through many persecutions.” 2 ³ When they had appointed elders for them in the various churches, with prayer and fasting they entrusted them to the protection of the Lord in whom they had believed. 2 ⁴ Then they passed through Pisidia and came into Pamphylia, 2 ⁵ and when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia. 2 ⁶ From there they sailed back to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work they had now completed. 2 ⁷ When they arrived and gathered the church together, they reported all the things God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith for the Gentiles.

¹ Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had ceased to exist, and the sea existed no more. ² And I saw the holy city—the new Jerusalem—descending out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband. ³ And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Look! The residence of God is among human beings. He will live among them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them. ⁴ He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not exist any more—or mourning, or crying, or pain, for the former things have ceased to exist.” ⁵ And the one seated on the throne said: “Look! I am making all things new!” Then he said to me, “Write it down, because these words are reliable and true.”