Second Sunday of the Year
Is 49:3, 5-6; 1 Cor 1:1-3; Jn 1:29-34 (year a)
As the memory of Christmas begins to fade, the liturgical readings focus our thoughts on the meaning and purpose of Christ’s birth. More than this, they invite us to reflect on the meaning of our own lives.
It is in Christ alone that our sometimes aimless lives find their sure direction. Our reflection begins with the prophecy of Isaiah, spoken to a people at the point of oblivion. Hope was rekindled with the prophecy of a future messiah, a humble servant, chosen from the womb to become God’s servant. The salvation that he would bring would reach beyond the narrow compass of his own people. It would embrace the whole world.
