A year ago, a promise was made during the campaign; Every citizen will buy a kilo of rice for 20 Pesos. Today what happens? During the election, the politicians make unbelievable, unimaginable promises that cannot be even practical.
The king Herod said to the girl, “Ask of me whatever you wish and I will grant it to you.” He even swore many things to her, “I will grant you whatever you ask of me, even to half of my kingdom.” The king is supposed to educate the child with proper advice, the saints have transmitted and entrusted his style to us; the preventive method. In this way, he ensured we might have it in our hearts and minds in order to practice it with everyone, anytime and always.
we remember the Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist, the Messiah's Precursor. All his life moves around Jesus, to the extent that without Him, the very existence would have had no meaning. From his mother's womb, the Baptist already senses the nearness of the Savior; John enthusiastically jumped inside his mother's womb. In his mission as Forerunner John kept this enthusiasm —he announced Jesus’ presence, and pointed Him out as the Messiah: “Behold, the Lamb of God” (Jn 1:36).
In the dusk of his existence, when preaching the messianic freedom to those enslaved by their vices, John is imprisoned: “John had said to Herod, ‘It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife’” (Mk 6:18). Thus, the testimony of the martyrdom of John the Baptist is centered upon the Person of Jesus. John the Baptist was Jesus' Forerunner in life, and he preceded Him also in his cruel death.
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