Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Dear friends in Christ

We have contemplated the early life of Jesus from His Birth to the Epiphany and now we come to the River Jordan where he has been Baptised and Saint John the Baptist points Him out: Behold the Lamb of God. These words had serious overtones to those who knew the meaning of the paschal lamb. The blood of the sacrificed lamb was  smeared on the doorposts of the Jews on the night of their liberation from slavery in Egypt. All of that was a prefiguring of the true Lamb, Jesus Christ, the victim of Calvary on behalf of all mankind. Christian art has represented Jesus Christ—God and man—as the Paschal Lamb, who takes away the sins of the world. Each time we attend Holy Mass we hear these words of Saint John the Baptist: they are calling Him out, pointing us to Him, telling us to pay attention: Jesus, the Lamb of God is in our midst. There is nothing sentimental about this imagery as we reflect on the blood of the Lamb, poured-out for the sins of the world, poured-out for our salvation. In the Mass, Jesus the Lamb of God, is both Priest and Victim who pleads our cause before the Father. May we be constant in the attention we give Him and always endeavour to receive Him worthily under roof of our soul.

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God bless you!

Msgr Kevin Hale