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    Mo Nguyen - Jan 18 at 2:48 AM
     
     
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          THE LAMB OF RECONCILIATION  
     

                      SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME / A         

                                            19 JANUARY 2020

                                  REFLECTIONS ON THE GOSPEL

                   THE LAMB OF RECONCILIATION (Jn 1:29-34)

    In today’s Gospel John the Baptist bears witness to Jesus and clarifies his own role and status.

    John may well come ‘before’ Jesus in terms of arrival on the human scene. But, as the embodiment of God’s creative Word (John 1:1-18), Jesus has a priority in eternity completely transcending human history. The One who comes ‘after’ John actually ranks ‘before’ him.

    There is also difference in what each has to give. John’s water baptism is a simple rite of conversion, disposing people for salvation. Jesus is going to ‘baptise with the Holy Spirit’.

    To understand what this means we have to look forward to the climax of the Gospel. The moment of Jesus’ death upon the cross (19:30) is not simply a final expiration of breath. It is also a majestic imparting of the Spirit. The Beloved Disciple, who stands by the cross of Jesus and adopts his Mother as his own, represents all later believers, all who will constitute the later Church.

    Because his legs are not broken, Jesus dies as the Pascal Lamb. Two days later, as risen Lord, he will stand among his disciples, breathe upon them and say, ‘Receive, the Holy Spirit; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven; who sins you shall retain, they are retained’ (20:22-23).

    In the light of all this we can grasp the full meaning of John’s hailing Jesus, as ‘the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world’. The Church is being empowered by the Spirit to take up Jesus’ ministry of reconciliation and peace with God.

     

    Brendan Byrne, SJ

     

    Songs of Reconciliation:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu-5VKIQWyY

     

     

         JESUS CHRIST, THE PASSOVER LAMB

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