Renaissance paintings of the Madonna and Child frequently include a chubby baby John the Baptist in a lower corner, wearing animal skins, holding a banner that says Ecce Agnus Dei (behold the Lamb of God), and pointing up at Jesus. In many ways, that is the vocation of every Christian, from the youngest to the oldest. Everything we do and say must point to Jesus. While few of us have been called to be “full time” prophets, everyone is baptized into a royal, priestly, and prophetic vocation. The Christian points to Lamb of God who forgives sins, heals broken hearts and lives, loves without boundaries, and dies for all. Christians point prophetically to the Jesus whose face is hidden in the schizophrenic homeless veteran, the unwed teenage mother collecting food stamps, the lonely elder and the annoying neighbor.
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