Father Reto: Mr. death yes, thank you for that meditation, and reality check.
A great homily, that Quickly clears away the clutter of self.

Father Reto just wondering:

I was taught that St John the Baptist was sanctified in the womb of St Elizabeth, when the Blessed Virgin Mary brought our Lord Jesus the Christ to see them in The Visitation.
I am thinking that St. John was the most Holy man that ever lived{2nd only to our Lord Jesus).
I thought he had been given a special mission in this world, Himself announced by the Archangel Gabriel.

The one crying out in the desert . I have a difficult time seeing St. John the Baptist as Mr death.
I am wondering Father, if a person is in a state of Grace, and receiving the Holy Catholic Sacraments : Don`t they have the Holy Ghost dwelling within them?
Is not that life, even in this desert?

I can see Mr. Death in the illusion of life being content in this world. I see him there in the false religions of this world.
Sadly he runs through our very Church, with all our silly pride {not so silly} and modernist novelties.

But Father..Those in a state of Sanctifying Grace can`t be Mr. Death, can they?

Thank you Father Reto for giving us bread and not stones - Kyrie Eleison, Kyrie Eleison, Kyrie Eleison

Father Reto has given us such a very interesting understanding of the cry of John Baptist. I have always before thought that St. John Baptist was crying to us that we should prepare the way of the Lord. But the idea that St. John Baptist was praying that the angels should prepare the way of the Lord, this is amazing to me and I think deeply true. Often today, I cannot discover a way to pray for conversions because everything is so capsized. To understand that the cry of St. John Baptist is after all a prayer: this is so poignant. It makes me understand that my own anguish over the collapse of Faith we see all around us was also St. John's at the time that produced the Crucifixion of Christ. Now we see the crucifixion of the Church. And all the evil that floods the world can be a means of grace, a preparation of the way of the Lord, because by the light of the Holy Ghost, we can see so clearly the true nature of evil and run from it.