POINTING THE WAY TO JESUS

John’s Gospel (Jn 1:6-28) stresses the role of John the Baptist as that of pointing us to the Messiah, who was coming to bring the light of God’s redemption to a darkened world.

John the Baptist was a creation of God, but without the light of Christ, he was nothing. His role was to let the light of Christ shine through him and help him point the way to Jesus. In our everyday life, we are called by God to bear witness to Christ and His saving grace in our lives.

God wants us to give hope to those we meet this Christmas. He wants us to bring hope to despair, to bring comfort to those hurting, to bring hope to the grieving, to bring a measure of His grace into this world.


As Isaiah says: because the LORD has anointed me to bring good tidings to the afflicted; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; The Christ is the one who is going to bring hope into this world (Is 61:1-2, 10-11).