Daily Mass Readings for December 25, 2025: Gospel — Jo 1, 1-18

⁷ How delightful it is to see approaching over the mountains the feet of a messenger who announces peace, a messenger who brings good news, who announces deliverance, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!” ⁸ Listen, your watchmen shout; in unison they shout for joy, for they see with their very own eyes the Lord’s return to Zion. ⁹ In unison give a joyful shout, O ruins of Jerusalem! For the Lord consoles his people; he protects Jerusalem. 1 ⁰ The Lord reveals his royal power in the sight of all the nations; the entire earth sees our God deliver.

¹ After God spoke long ago in various portions and in various ways to our ancestors through the prophets, ² in these last days he has spoken to us in a son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he created the world. ³ The Son is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, and he sustains all things by his powerful word, and so when he had accomplished cleansing for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. ⁴ Thus he became so far better than the angels as he has inherited a name superior to theirs. ⁵ For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my son! Today I have fathered you”? And in another place he says, “I will be his father and he will be my son.” ⁶ But when he again brings his firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him!”