In today's Gospel, John the Baptist sends his disciples to ask Our Lord some questions. We know that it's not because John doesn't know Who Our Lord is...but rather because he is humbly sending his followers to be converted to follow Jesus. Do we always use our gifts to guide people to God, or do we try to get people to follow and admire us instead? Do we guide our children to love God, or just to love us, and go to church to please us? Do we guide our friends and acquaintances to turn to God in their troubles, or merely to lean on us because we have all the answers? Let us be like John the Baptist and always lead others to the one true God...to always say, "Behold the Lamb of God."

"Bestow upon my soul, sweet Jesus, the faith which John the Baptist sent his disciples to find near Thee, and augment it each day more and more. I shall soon have the happiness of approaching Thy crib and of hearing and seeing Thee on that blessed night of Christmas which is so near. Grant, by Thy grace, that I may kneel before Thee with a faith dimmed by no shadow of doubt, and proclaim that Thou art He that is to come. Amen."

~ taken from a meditation for the 2nd Sunday of Advent in

"The Expectation of Jesus" by L'Abbe Max Caron.