Third Sunday of Advent: The Three-fold Hope by Bishop Ehrler, 1891
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Third Sunday of Advent: The Three-fold Hope by Bishop Ehrler, 1891 . "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness: make straight the way of the Lord." (John I: 23.) . In my text of to-day, my dearly-beloved, St. John calls himself a voice, thereby giving his disciples plainly to understand that he was not the "Word made flesh," but simply the voice of that Word. And those who listened to him knew that the Son of God could not then be far off, inasmuch as they already heard his voice in the person of the Baptist. As the voice prepares the way for the word, so that it may come forth intelligibly from the mouth of man, so also John, through his voice, (that is, through his preaching and baptism) prepared the hearts of men for the coming of Christ. Hence, he says that he is that voice which Isaias had long before foretold as crying out: "Make straight the way of the Lord." In what did this preparation principally consist?" He preached the baptism of penance, for the remission of sins (Luke 3 : 3)." He consoled the people, and after he had imbued them with faith in the Redeemer, he animated them still further to love him and confide in him:
Third Sunday of Advent: The Three-fold Hope by Bishop Ehrler, 1891
Third Sunday of Advent: The Three-fold Hope…
Third Sunday of Advent: The Three-fold Hope by Bishop Ehrler, 1891
Third Sunday of Advent: The Three-fold Hope by Bishop Ehrler, 1891 . "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness: make straight the way of the Lord." (John I: 23.) . In my text of to-day, my dearly-beloved, St. John calls himself a voice, thereby giving his disciples plainly to understand that he was not the "Word made flesh," but simply the voice of that Word. And those who listened to him knew that the Son of God could not then be far off, inasmuch as they already heard his voice in the person of the Baptist. As the voice prepares the way for the word, so that it may come forth intelligibly from the mouth of man, so also John, through his voice, (that is, through his preaching and baptism) prepared the hearts of men for the coming of Christ. Hence, he says that he is that voice which Isaias had long before foretold as crying out: "Make straight the way of the Lord." In what did this preparation principally consist?" He preached the baptism of penance, for the remission of sins (Luke 3 : 3)." He consoled the people, and after he had imbued them with faith in the Redeemer, he animated them still further to love him and confide in him: