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Sunday, January 15, 2017

Bishop Barron's Daily Gospel Reflection January 15, 2017

Your daily Gospel reflection...
Sunday, January 15, 2017
2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A
John 1:29-34
Friends, todays Gospel contains the first biblical presentation of the Trinity. “After he was baptized, he came directly out of the water. Suddenly the sky opened and he saw the Spirit of God descend like a dove and hover over him. With that, a voice from the heavens said, ‘This is my beloved Son. My favor rests on him.’”

This is the first time in the Bible that the tri-personhood of God is on display, making it one of the most important theophanies in Scripture.In love, the Father sends the Son into god-forsakenness, into the muddy waters of our own sin, and the Spirit is the love which connects the Father and Son, the love in which the Father sends and in which the Son is sent.

So now we see that the God who is just and demanding (and those both remain in place) is, at bottom and through and through, love.

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