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  • A Prophet Who Prepares. A Homily for the Second Sunday of Advent

    12/30/2013 4:04:57 PM PST · by Coleus · 1 replies
    Msgr. Charles Pope ^ | 12.7.2013 | Msgr. Charles Pope
    The Second Sunday of Advent usually features the Ministry of St. John the Baptist. He was the  Prophet who fulfilled the Office of Elijah of whom it was said: See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction (Mal 4:4-6). Therefore St. John is a prophet who prepared the people of his time for the coming of Jesus, by...