Since the adoption of the 1979 Prayer Book, the gospel lessons on the Second and Third Sundays of Advent are always about John the Baptist. In this Lectionary Year of Mark, by far the shortest of our gospels, the editors had the opportunity to appoint a lesson from John. Today’s gospel follows the introduction, the prologue, of John’s Gospel: This is Francis Moloney’s translation of this gospel’s first verse. He tries to capture something of the dynamic of the Greek verbs: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was turned toward God, and what God was, the Word was also.”[1]
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