Today’s gospel is the clearest statement we could hope to find in the Gospels about what our vocation as Christians is - to point Jesus as God’s last word, to point to Jesus as the fullness of God’s promise and to live out the way offing that as John the Baptist specifies in this text: Jesus must increase, and we must decrease so that all people come to know Jesus.

About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.

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