A
Poem a Sunday
Advent
II – C
The Proclamation of
John the Baptist
3
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was
governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler[a] of Galilee, and his brother Philip
ruler[b] of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler[c] of
Abilene, 2 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God
came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. 3 He went into all the region
around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of
sins, 4 as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah,
“The
voice of one crying out in the wilderness:
‘Prepare
the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight.
5
Every valley shall be filled,
and every mountain and hill shall be made
low,
and
the crooked shall be made straight,
and
the rough ways made smooth;
6
and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’”
Footnotes:
a.
Luke 3:1 Gk tetrarch
b.
Luke 3:1 Gk tetrarch
c.
Luke 3:1 Gk tetrarch
A
Poem a Sunday
Advent
II – C
A
Reflection
The
Voice
Nine months with no
voice.
Zachariah lost his
voice in the Temple when promised a son.
His voice was
pregnant along with Elizabeth
and until his voice gave birth to
‘John.’
It is a terrible
thing to lose one’s voice.
Have you ever lost
your voice? It is so frustrating.
Imagine the people
of God losing their voice.
Isaiah, the prophet,
is writing when God’s people, Judah,
have been in exile.
They are tired,
weary of pleading to God.
They have lost
their voice.
The prophet,
Isaiah, gives voice to their inner yearnings,
their desire to return to their
land.
The prophet
re-gains the voice for the people and cries out:
“In the wilderness,
prepare the way of the Lord…”
We may have lost
our voice in weariness.
Our inmost yearnings
may remain unspoken.
Advent is a time
when the Scripture and the Church
gives voice to our
deepest yearnings.
Copyright
@2018 by Rev. Kenneth R. Storck
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with permission.
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