Gaudete Sunday (/ɡaʊˈdɛtɛ/ gow-DEH-teh) is the third Sunday
of Advent in the liturgical calendar of the Western Church, including
the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, many Lutheran
Churches, and other mainline Protestant churches.3rd Sunday of Advent Year B.
FIRST READING
Isaiah 61:1—2a, 10—11
SECOND READING
1 Thessalonians 5:16—24
1 Thessalonians 5:16—24
GOSPEL
John 1:6—8, 19—28
John 1:6—8, 19—28
THEME: WHAT TYPE OF MESSAGE DO YOU CARRY?
There
was a king who fell sick. At a point he asked his first son to go get him his native
doctor to consult his ancestors to know the problem. When the native doctor
arrived, after incantation, he told him that before he gets well all his
brothers must die. When the king heard that, he asked him to be arrested. The
king sent for another native doctor, when that one came he started like this.
My king, I think before you get out of this, we have to do something about your
enemies. The king asked him what they will do, he told him that his enemies are
his brothers but he suggests that a sacrifice and charm for protection should
be made for him but if he wants to end everything, they have to be killed. The
king chose the first option. Why this story? It is about the type of messages
we carry around. Sometimes we carry bad ones, sometimes good ones but in a
wrong manner or place and sometimes we carry good ones at perfect place it
should be. Sometimes we give people hope where there is no hope through our
messages, sometimes we give people hope where there is hope. Sometimes we take
away hope where there is hope through our messages. What we should ask
ourselves is, what type of message do we carry about? Some are true but the
communication may make it or them bad. Like when you want to tell a woman who
has one son that the son is dead, it is true but there is a way you will
present it and you will bury two persons and there is a way you will present it
and she will understand. Mode or manner of communication.