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Gospel Reading - Fruit that will last

¹⁵I no longer call you slaves, for a master doesn’t confide in his slaves; now you are my friends, proved by the fact that I have told you everything the Father told me.

¹⁶“You didn’t choose me! I chose you! I appointed you to go and produce lovely fruit always, so that no matter what you ask for from the Father, using my name, he will give it to you. ¹⁷I demand that you love each other, ¹⁸for you get enough hate from the world! But then, it hated me before it hated you. ¹⁹The world would love you if you belonged to it; but you don’t — for I chose you to come out of the world, and so it hates you. ²⁰Do you remember what I told you? ‘A slave isn’t greater than his master!’ So since they persecuted me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to me, they would listen to you! ²¹The people of the world will persecute you because you belong to me, for they don’t know God who sent me.