SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - YEAR A
Readings
First: Isaiah 49: 3, 5 - 6 - You are my servant, Israel .. I will make you light to the nations so that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.
Psalm 39 : Here I am Lord, I come to do your will / I waited, I waited for the Lord / You do no ask for sacrifice and offerings / In the scroll of the book it stands written / Your justice I have proclaimed.
Second: I Corinthians 1:1-3 : Paul sends greetings to the church in Corinth ... who are called to take their place among all the saints everywhere ... for [Christ] is their Lord no less than ours.
Gospel: John 1:29-34 - John sees Jesus and recognizes that he is the lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world and says that he saw the Spirit come down on Jesus like a dove when he (John) baptized Jesus. This is how he knows that Jesus is the Chosen One of God.
Themes
Jesus - the Chosen lamb of God - the word made flesh who lived among us, to do the Father's will.
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Picture: "Saint John the Baptist Pointing Out Christ as the Lamb of God," by Master of the Saint John Altarpiece, circa 1510-1510, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Public Domain.
