“John the Baptist is an uncomfortable kind of person; not the kind one would choose as a holiday companion for the Mediterranean beaches! Yet his is an authentic way of life for some Christians and indeed all of us have to come to terms with it. There is no-one of whom our Lord spoke so highly when He said, ‘among those that are born of women there hath not risen one greater than John Baptist’. The conversation between the two of them at our Lord’s baptism reveals an intimacy and complete understanding of each other.”
- extract from Sermon on John Baptist by Fr Augustine Hoey
Msgr Augustine Hoey obl OSB 