In today's Gospel, we hear about St. John the Baptist fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah:"a voice of one crying in the wilderness: prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths. Every valley shall be filled: and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight; and the rough ways plain; and all flesh shall see the salvation of God."
In this time of Avent, as we eagerly await the coming of Our Lord, we need to be the John the Baptists of today, crying out in the wilderness of our modern society, sharing the Gospel and preparing the way of the Lord.
As Pope St. Gregory the Great said, "Everyone that preaches true faith and good works, what does he do but prepare the way of the Lord so that He may come into the hearts of his hearers, and may make straight the path for God, forming right dispositions within them by the words of his exhortations, so that this power of pardon may enter in there, and the light of truth shine there?"
Let us not cease in praying and preaching the Gospel until that day when all flesh knows of the salvation that God offers through His Son, Our Lord, Jesus Christ.
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