Gospel: Luke 3:1-6
In the fifteenth
year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of
Judea, and Herod was
tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea
and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene, during the high
priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of
Zechariah in the desert. John went throughout the whole region of the Jordan,
proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it is
written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah: A voice of one crying
out in the desert: “Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths. Every
valley shall be filled and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The
winding roads shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth, and all
flesh shall see the salvation of God.”
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Reflection:
A powerful and
learned man saw a simple man preaching about the teachings of Jesus. The
powerful man got curious of what the simple man was talking. So he got off his
car and listened to the preaching of the simple man.
The powerful man was
so captured by the preaching that he listened to it. After the preaching was
over the powerful man said to himself, “I wish God gave me also the same gift
of preaching.”
In the gospel for
this second Sunday of advent Saint Luke presents to us the names of powerful
people. Such as Tiberius Caesar Pontius Pilate and many other personalities who
controlled their own kingdom.
However Luke
mentions also the name of John a simple man who was chosen by God to be the
herald for Jesus. God did not choose any
of the powerful personalities in the gospel to prepare the way for Jesus. Since
they have influence God could have easily chosen any of them. But God chose
John the simple man from the desert to become the precursor of Jesus.
What is the message
for us with the anointment of John? This tells us that God generally comes to
those who are simple. To those who don’t allow themselves to be possessed by
the trappings and influence of this world.
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