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[Emoke Greschik]

Your daily Gospel reflection...
*Thursday, December 14, 2017*
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2nd Thursday of Advent - Memorial of Saint John of the Cross

Matthew 11:11-15






*Friends, today’s Gospel affirms the greatness of John the Baptist. I think
it’s fair to say that you cannot really understand Jesus without
understanding John, which is precisely why all four Evangelists tell the
story of the Baptist as a kind of overture to the story of Jesus.John did
not draw attention to himself. Rather, he presented himself as a
preparation, a forerunner, a prophet preparing the way of the Lord. He was
summing up much of Israelite history, but stressing that this history was
open-ended, unfinished.And therefore, how powerful it was when, upon spying
Jesus coming to be baptized, he said, "Behold the Lamb of God." No
first-century Israelite would have missed the meaning of that: behold the
one who has come to be sacrificed. Behold the sacrifice, which will sum up,
complete, and perfect the Temple. Moreover, behold the Passover lamb, who
sums up the whole meaning of that event and brings it to fulfillment.And
this is why John says, "He must increase and I must decrease." In other
words, the overture is complete; and now the great opera begins. The
preparatory work of Israel is over, and now the Messiah will reign. *

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