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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> today’s Gospel compels us to come to grips with the great Advent figure
of John the Baptist. </b></span>It’s really impossible to grasp the significance
of Jesus without <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>passing through the cleansing bath of John the Baptist.<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">
</span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> He provides a lens through which Jesus is properly interpreted.</b><b><br></b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><br></b></span></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;text-align:start">John,
we learn today, made his appearance as a preacher in the desert of
Judea. </span></span></span><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;text-align:start"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Deserts are places of simplicity and poverty, places where
<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">distractions and attachments</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><span></span></span>are eliminated—</b></span>and hence <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>where the voice of
God can be heard.</b></span></span></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;text-align:start"> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Wealth, pleasure, power, honor</b></span><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29)">—</span><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29)"></span></span></span><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;text-align:start"><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">and all of their
avatars and priests</span></span></span></span><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;text-align:start">—<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b><u>are shouting at us, luring us, tempting us</u>.</b></span></span></span></span><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;text-align:start"><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><u>But what
is God saying? </u></b></span></span></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;text-align:start">We have to go to these silent and deserted places in
order to hear.<br></span></span></span><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;text-align:start">What
is the first thing that <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">the prophet says?</span> </b></span>We read in another Gospel
that he says, <u><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>"Reform your lives!" </b></span></u></span></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;text-align:start">In other words, </span></span></span><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;text-align:start"><u><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>"Repent!"</b></span> </u></span></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;text-align:start">This word
cuts to the heart of every one of us,</span></span></span><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;text-align:start"> precisely because we all know that
<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> </b></span></span></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;text-align:start">our lives are not where they are supposed
to be. </span></span></span><b style="margin:0px;outline:medium none currentcolor;padding:0px;font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal;text-align:start"><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>We</b> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>have all fallen short of</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> the glory of God;</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>we have all fallen
into patterns of self-absorption and addiction.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>So let us hear <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">John’s
word</span> today: <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)">"Repent!"</span></b></span></span></b></div></b></b></b></b></b></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div id="m_-3258181305901394031DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br> <table style="border-top:1px solid #d3d4de">
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