Thursday 24 June 2010

John the Baptist

Thursday, 24 June 2010

The Nativity of St. John the Baptist

Mass: Last evening in the Sermon for the Solemnity we heard about St John of the Baptist according to the definition of the “Greatest of the Prophets”, lighting up the awareness of the john of the Scriptures.

At the Night Office St Augustine was on a different wavelength from the beginning of the Precursor already before birth, and then moves into the Bible Theology of the Incarnation, leading into mysticism of the Eternal Word.

The Liturgy provides a super-abundance of vision and vistas beyond our grasp.

Our prayer can be corresponding simplicity in a balance of head and heart and hands.


"I have proposed some matters for inquiry, and listed in advance some things that need to be discussed. I have introduced these points even if we are not up to examining all the twists and turns of such a great mystery, either for lack of capacity or for lack of time. You will be taught much better by the one who speaks in you even when I am not here; the one about whom you think loving thoughts, the one whom you have taken into your hearts and whose temple you have become." Augustine.


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