What does it mean to witness to Christ our Lord? Is it not to share in the joy and peace of living a life in Him? To bear witness to the Holy Trinity by the way we lead our lives?
Yes it is and more…
We need to know the truth, speak the truth and live the truth. No duplicity can be tolerated. Parents must guide their children and speak up against fornication and cohabitation! We must all speak up against injustices committed against those who cannot defend themselves. Say no to abortion, euthanasia and same sex ‘marriages`. To know Jesus is to know the truth. To say we know the truth is to live it in our daily lives.
Lord Jesus help me to live your truth in my life. Amen
First reading
1 John 2:22-28
The man who denies that Jesus is the Christ– he is the liar, he is Antichrist;
and he is denying the Father as well as the Son, because no one who has the Father can deny the Son, and to acknowledge the Son is to have the Father as well.
Keep alive in yourselves what you were taught in the beginning: as long as what you were taught in the beginning is alive in you,
you will live in the Son
and in the Father; and what is promised to you by his own promise is eternal life.
This is all that I am writing to you about the people who are trying to lead you astray.
But you have not lost the anointing that he gave you,
and you do not need anyone to teach you; the anointing he gave teaches you everything; you are anointed with truth, not with a lie,
and as it has taught you, so you must stay in him.
Live in Christ, then, my children, so that if he appears, we may have full confidence, and not turn from him in shame at his coming.
Gospel
John 1:19-28
This is how John appeared as a witness. When the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, ‘Who are you?’ he not only declared, but he declared quite openly, ‘I am not the Christ.’ ‘Well then,’ they asked ‘are you Elijah?’ ‘I am not’ he said. ‘Are you the Prophet?’ He answered, ‘No.’ So they said to him, ‘Who are you? We must take back an answer to those who sent us. What have you to say about yourself?’ So John said, ‘I am, as Isaiah prophesied:
a voice that cries in the wilderness: Make a straight way for the Lord.’
Now these men had been sent by the Pharisees, and they put this further question to him, ‘Why are you baptising if you are not the Christ, and not Elijah, and not the prophet?’ John replied, ‘I baptise with water; but there stands among you– unknown to you– the one who is coming after me; and I am not fit to undo his sandal-strap.’ This happened at Bethany, on the far side of the Jordan, where John was baptising.
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