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Our Calling to be Little John the Baptists

Posted on December 18, 2023

St. John the Baptist Sees Jesus from Afar by James Tissot

During Advent, I have been reflecting on the injunction to “Prepare the way for the Lord.” This is the life message of John the Baptist, and he does it with his whole person even unto death. Usually I receive this admonition in Advent as one for my own heart to make ready more space for the Lord, to give the long awaited Jesus more access to my valleys and mountains so that he can make them into a straight path for his presence. My death to self gives more breath to the risen Christ living his life in me.

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Nativity Among the Ruins

Posted on December 23, 2021

I have been blessed this year by the book, The Mystery of Holy Night, a compilation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s sermons on the Incarnation interspersed with art on the subject. The opening page quotes a letter he wrote from prison on the first Sunday in Advent, 1943, where he was imprisoned for his stand against the Nazis. Here is what he wrote to his parents:

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