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[Emoke Greschik]

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Your daily Gospel reflection...
*Sunday, June 24, 2018*
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Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist

Luke 1:57-66, 80


*Friends, today’s Gospel celebrates the birth 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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