Cycle C - Year I
9 December 2012: 2nd Sunday of Advent
(Liturgical color: Violet)
Luke 3:1-6
Prepare the way of the Lord!
"A man with a mission!" That's what we say to describe someone with so much passion or zest for living.
On the second Sunday of Advent we meet such a man in the person of John the Baptist. He was the last of the prophets who was sent with a very special mission: to prepare the way for the Savior.
The role of John the Baptist in our salvation history was very important indeed because it was he who opened the way for Christ to start his public ministry. It was John the Baptist who announced the coming of the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world!
Saint Luke wrote: "John went throughout the whole region of Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins." And John's baptism found its perfection with the new baptism we all received in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as we become members of Christ's mystical body, the Church.
In baptism our soul is covered with God's light and receives the forgiveness of original sin we all inherited from our first parents, Adam and Eve.
Repentance is like the door that opens to allow God's visit to our soul. For it is said that God's throne is in the highest heaven, surrounded by majesty, glory and splendor, but God's dwelling place on earth is found in a humble and contrite heart that repents.
The Church teaches that everyone who is baptized is a man with a mission, like John the Baptist, which is to proclaim the Good News of the kingdom of Heaven, through his faith, examples and words. In other words, our mission is to prepare the way for Christ's coming, on his birthday on Christmas day, his coming in our lives through the Sacrament of Holy Communion, and his final coming at the end of times.
On the second Sunday of Advent we meet such a man in the person of John the Baptist. He was the last of the prophets who was sent with a very special mission: to prepare the way for the Savior.
The role of John the Baptist in our salvation history was very important indeed because it was he who opened the way for Christ to start his public ministry. It was John the Baptist who announced the coming of the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world!
Saint Luke wrote: "John went throughout the whole region of Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins." And John's baptism found its perfection with the new baptism we all received in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as we become members of Christ's mystical body, the Church.
In baptism our soul is covered with God's light and receives the forgiveness of original sin we all inherited from our first parents, Adam and Eve.
Repentance is like the door that opens to allow God's visit to our soul. For it is said that God's throne is in the highest heaven, surrounded by majesty, glory and splendor, but God's dwelling place on earth is found in a humble and contrite heart that repents.
The Church teaches that everyone who is baptized is a man with a mission, like John the Baptist, which is to proclaim the Good News of the kingdom of Heaven, through his faith, examples and words. In other words, our mission is to prepare the way for Christ's coming, on his birthday on Christmas day, his coming in our lives through the Sacrament of Holy Communion, and his final coming at the end of times.
A blessed Sunday to us all.
And thank you for a moment with God.
Deo Optimo Maximo!
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