The Gospel yesterday reminded of the need for purification and renewal. In due course John the Baptist appeared; he preached in the wilderness of Judaea and this was his message: ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is close at hand.’ This was the man the prophet Isaiah spoke of when he said: A voice cries […]
I When, for the fifteenth year, Tiberius CaesarCursed, with his reign, the Roman world,Sharing the Near-East with a tribe of tetrarchs,The Word of God was made in far-off province:Deliverance from the herd of armored cattle,When, from the desert, John came down to Jordan. But his prophetic messagesWere worded in a code the scribes were not […]
First reading: Isaiah 11:1-10 Seeing Sunday’s first reading in its fuller context reminds that the light of God’s promises shines all the brighter when we acknowledge and recall the darkness of the world into which that light shines… It also reminds how very particularly this light shines precisely through the election of Israel as God’s […]
