NO MAN GREATER THAN JOHN THE BAPTIST............

One of only three persons liturgically commemorated with a nativity feast day, John the Baptist whose Birthday Catholic-Christianity celebrates today, was raised up by God to not only be, "A voice crying out in the wilderness", but the one to come just before the Alpha and Omega, the Great I Am, the Son of God, who is the Messiah, the Savior of the World, and Redeemer of Humankind, Jesus The Christ.  John the Baptizer proclaimed Reform and Readiness, as he baptized with water, those who listened to him , while proclaiming the One who Comes baptizes in Water and the Holy Spirit.  John  fulfilled his role as the Divine agent in the dawning of Salvation, that Jesus The Christ is, and whose Herald John was.  As we commemorate this Sunday and the Solemnity of John the Baptist's Birth, may we too pledge ourselves to being daily heralds of the Good News of God's Love, and Redemption in Christ, as we are empowered by the Holy Spirit, as is the one described in the Christian Gospel as, "no man greater than he born of woman", until the One he foretold  came, Jesus - the Lord of All Creation............Fr.  Troy