Reflection for  FRIDAY, 4 week Advent

By

Fr. Aloysius Santiago sdb
Director, Social Action Movement, Don Bosco Bidar  

Today's Gospel Verses 


Luke 1:57-66   

 When it was time for Elizabeth to have her baby, she gave birth to a son. Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they shared her joy.

 On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah, but his mother spoke up and said, “No! He is to be called John.” 

 They said to her, “There is no one among your relatives who has that name.” 

Then they made signs to his father, to find out what he would like to name the child. He asked for a writing tablet, and to everyone’s astonishment he wrote, “His name is John.”  Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue set free, and he began to speak, praising God. All the neighbors were filled with awe, and throughout the hill country of Judea people were talking about all these things. Everyone who heard this wondered about it, asking, “What then is this child going to be?” For the Lord’s hand was with him. 

Meditation on the Word of God 

We would like to be notified when something important is coming up.

Not only would we like to be notified, we would also like to know what the matter is and how it would concern us.

We would like to be given a notice or a “heads up” so that we will set aside the date and be prepared for the meeting.

These last couple of days of the season of Advent bring us to think about the prophecies of the Old Testament where God promised His people a Saviour who will free them from their enemies and bring them salvation of peace.

The 1st reading from the prophet Malachi was one of many prophecies that foretold of the coming of the Saviour, and that a messenger will be sent to prepare the way.

So God’s people already knew of this Good News and they looked forward to that messenger who would announce the coming of the Saviour.

As for us, we already know that the messenger was John the Baptist and he prepared the people then for the coming of Jesus.

But the prophetic voice does not stop with John the Baptist, or that we don’t have to wait for Jesus since He already came.

God continues to send people who will speak the prophetic voice to remind us that Jesus comes to us over and over again to bring us salvation and peace.

Let us recall and reflect on the voice of God spoken by those whom God has sent to us, and let us listen and prepare to let Jesus come into our heart so that we can be filled with peace and salvation.


        GOD BLESS YOU

Good morning. Have a nice day.