The Baptist calls us recognize the voice in desert

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Advent is time of hope and expectation, it is also a time of repentance and conversion. Today's readings in the Liturgy orient our attention to changing our life's to reflect more and more the Lord's. And the Baptist is the amazing and stirring Advent proponents to follow Jesus more closely. What is more identifiable than the Baptist's exhortation: Prepare the way of the Lord?

St. Augustine on the gift of conversion: "What, then? It is perhaps dependant on you, O man, if converted to God once you have earned his mercy, while on the contrary those who have not converted have not obtained mercy but have encountered the wrath of God? But you what resources available to convert, if you had not been called? Was it not He who called you when you were the enemy, to grant you the grace of repentance? So do not ascribe to yourself the merit of your conversion: why, if God had not intervened to call you when you fled from him, you would not have been able to look back." St. Augustine Expositionson the Psalmi, 84, 8-9.

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Paul A. Zalonski is from New Haven, CT. He is a member of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation, a Catholic ecclesial movement and an Oblate of Saint Benedict. Contact Paul at paulzalonski[at]yahoo.com.

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