December 7, 2025 – Second Sunday of Advent ‘A’
Is. 11:1-10; Rom. 15:4-9; Matt. 3:1-12
HOMILY
The Book of Acts tells us the story of Paul who, finding a group of believers in Ephesus, asked them: ‘Have you received the Holy Spirit since you became believers?’ -- ‘No,’ they replied, ‘we have never even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.’ Then Paul asked them, ‘What baptism did you receive?’ -- ‘That of John the Baptist,’ they replied. Then Paul quoted to them the message given by John in today's Gospel: ‘I baptize you with water... But the one who comes after me... will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.’