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Podcast: Your Grace is Sufficient
Episode: Gospel and Homily for the Second Sunday of Advent Year A
Description: Second Sunday of Advent Year A
Matthew 3:1-12
In due course John the Baptist appeared; he preached in the wilderness of Judaea and this was his message: βRepent, for the kingdom of heaven is close at hand.β This was the man the prophet Isaiah spoke of when he said:
A voice cries in the wilderness:
Prepare a way for the Lord,
make his paths straight.
This man John wore a garment made of camel-hair with a leather belt round his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then Jerusalem and all Judaea and the whole Jordan district made thei...