Today’s commentary is given by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP (http://goodnews.ie). Jesus is there anonymously in the crowd, coming forward with the rest to meet the famous John the Baptist. It is impossible for us to see him as an anonymous person; to us he stands out from every crowd and from the whole human race:

Today’s commentary is given by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP (http://goodnews.ie). “The child’s father and mother were amazed at what was being said about him.”  This shows that they had no hindsight; they thought of themselves in every way as normal people.  This is their connection with us.  Had they thought themselves special from birth, they

Today’s commentary is given by Fr Donagh O’Shea OP (http://goodnews.ie). When the prophets of Israel spoke of God’s intervention in human history, they imagined it as another thunderous event like Exodus or Mount Sinai.  No one imagined that it would be an event so hidden in ordinariness as the conception of a child.