Today is the feast of the birthday of John the Baptist who was never a baptized Christian but all the same is a Christian saint. That’s unusual enough but what is truly extraordinary is the sort of Saint John is. John the Baptist is the most simple and explicit instance of what the vocation of every Christian is - his vocation was to be the first person to explicitly point to the coming and the arrival of Jesus, sent by God to b the Christ and to save us.

About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.

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