[Grem] Karácsonyi idő mai igéi

[Emoke Greschik]

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Your daily Gospel reflection...
*Tuesday, January 2, 2018*
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Memorial of Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen

John 1:19-28
*Friends, in today’s Gospel John the Baptist identifies himself as "the
voice of one crying out in the desert." How often the great heroes of the
Biblical revelation have to spend time in the desert: *Abraham, Moses, John
the Baptist, Paul. Even Jesus himself spends forty days and nights in the
desert *b**efore commencing* his

*ministry. They have to wait through a painful time,* living a
stripped-down life,* before they are ready. What does the desert symbolize?
Confrontation with one’s own sin; seeing one’s dark side; a deep
realization of one’s dependency upon God; an ordering of the priorities of
one’s life; *a simplification, a getting back to basics.
*It means any and all of these things. *
But the bottom line is that *they are compelled to wait,* during a time and*
in a place where very little life seems to be on offer. But it is precisely
in such deserts that the flowers bloom. Moses becomes a great leader;
Abraham is the father of many nations; Joseph becomes the savior of his
people; John the Baptist is the forerunner of the Messiah; Paul is the
Apostle to the Gentiles—all of this flowering was made possible by the
desert.*
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