For God loved the world so much that he gave up his only child, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but have the resurrection life. For God did not send his Son into the world in order to pronounce condemnation on the world but that the world would be saved through him. The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe is already condemned, because they do not believe in the name of the only Son of God.
This is the judgement – that the light has come into the world and yet people loved the darkness than rather the light, for their deeds were evil. Indeed everyone who goes on doing evil hates the light and and does not come to the light, lest their works might be exposed. The one who acts in truth comes to the light, so that their works may be shown to have been carried out in God.+
Teach us, good Lord,
to serve thee as thou deservest;
to give and not to count the cost;
to fight and not to heed the wounds;
to toil and not to seek for rest;
to labour and not to ask for any reward,
save that of knowing that we do thy will,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen
St Ignatius