Only by lstriving to lead Holy lives can we hear the Lord speaking to us daily. And He does! For we are His children and He loves us. He is ever present in every aspect of our lives, a loving Father waiting to embrace us when we turn to Him.
Though we did nothing to merit it, in His great love for us He sent His Son. Our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ who laid His life down for us to take away the sins of the world. And through Him we are saved, through Him we can worship and love God with all our hearts. Through Him we are fully alive and can experience a deep and personal relationship with Him; spiritually even physically. Through the Holy Spirit we can see, feel and touch Him. He is present with us through the Holy Eucharist.
And so with joyful hearts we can proclaim together with St John the Baptist, “Come and experience the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world! Blessed are we called to the supper of the lamb.” Amen
First reading
1 John 2:29-3:6
You know that God is righteous –
then you must recognise that everyone whose life is righteous
has been begotten by him.
Think of the love that the Father has lavished on us,
by letting us be called God’s children;
and that is what we are.
Because the world refused to acknowledge him,
therefore it does not acknowledge us.
My dear people, we are already the children of God
but what we are to be in the future has not yet been revealed;
all we know is, that when it is revealed
we shall be like him
because we shall see him as he really is.
Surely everyone who entertains this hope
must purify himself, must try to be as pure as Christ.
Anyone who sins at all
breaks the law,
because to sin is to break the law.
Now you know that he appeared in order to abolish sin,
and that in him there is no sin;
anyone who lives in God does not sin,
and anyone who sins
has never seen him or known him.
Gospel
John 1:29-34
Seeing Jesus coming towards him, John said, ‘Look, there is the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. This is the one I spoke of when I said: A man is coming after me who ranks before me because he existed before me. I did not know him myself, and yet it was to reveal him to Israel that I came baptising with water.’ John also declared, ‘I saw the Spirit coming down on him from heaven like a dove and resting on him. I did not know him myself, but he who sent me to baptise with water had said to me, “The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and rest is the one who is going to baptise with the Holy Spirit.” Yes, I have seen and I am the witness that he is the Chosen One of God.’
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