Gaudete Sunday: Rejoice in the Lord always

St. John the Baptist’s words point to the matter of which way it is that Catholics are called to walk along, namely the straight way, the narrow way.

Parts of the Gospel for this third Sunday in Advent, Gaudete Sunday, will no doubt be familiar to many, since it is drawn from the first chapter of John’s Gospel, of which the first fourteen verses are used as the Last Gospel at the end of Mass. It is in this Gospel that we hear the powerful, resonating words of St. John the Baptist, “I am the voice of …