14 December 2025 – Third Sunday of Advent ‘A’
Is 35:1-6a, 10; Jas 5:7-10; Mt 11:2-11
H o m i l y
As we saw in last Sunday's Gospel, John the Baptist called his contemporaries to conversion. Spiritually nourished by the writings of the great prophets of Israel, he had announced the coming of divine wrath, the coming of a Messiah who would judge the nations, separate the good from the wicked, and exterminate the latter: ‘The axe is already laid to the root of the trees; every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.’