Good day to all.
Today we remember the martyrdom of St. John the Baptist.
As the story goes, he got caught up in a situation with King Herod who married has brother’s wife. And then we all remember the “Dance of Seven Veils” that resulted in John’s head being presented to Saloma as a gift.
I often wonder how many of us would be attractive to a person coming out of the desert, clad in camel’s hare and eating bugs. It was not so much what he looked like as what he had to tell the people. “Repent, the Kingdom of God is at hand.” (Matt4:17, Mk1:15)
Over and over again, John told the people that he was not the Messiah. John was the one who pointed Him our when he said, “Behold, the Lamb of God.”(Jn1:29)
The writer James Green has this to say to us today, “John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So ever bodes calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth.”
If these words are true, then it is ALL of our vocations to POINT the way to Christ to others. Again, not by what we say, but more importantly as how we LIVE Christ – like lives.
Peace and All Good,
Fr. Vinnie, fcm and the
Bros and Srs of the
Franciscan House of Prayer.
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