First Reading

Brothers and sisters:

From the day we heard about you, we do not cease praying for you

and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of God's will

through all spiritual wisdom and understanding

to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord,

so as to be fully pleasing, in every good work bearing fruit

and growing in the knowledge of God,

strengthened with every power, in accord with his glorious might,

for all endurance and patience,

with joy giving thanks to the Father, who has made you fit to share

in the inheritance of the holy ones in light.

He delivered us from the power of darkness

and transferred us to the Kingdom of his beloved Son,

in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.