Food for thought: (Bulletin 18 Jan 2026), Gospel: Jn 1:29-34.

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Food for Thought & Bulletin

(21 Dec 2025)

​​“Called to be Holy” 

Today’s scripture opens with a focus on Isaiah’s “servant” - the light to the nations. This light then moves to John the Baptist and his testimony about Jesus. And finally that light comes to rest on us, both as a community of faith and as individual witnesses to the light of Christ. We are called to be holy.

In Jesus, we too are called to be this “light to the nations.” But we have a long way to go before we, as a community, can be called servants of God’s compassion and peace in the world. If we truly are lights to the world, then we are on display all the time. Who we are as the people of God and how we interact among ourselves and others, will also be a message to those in exile, calling them out of their darkness into the loving embrace of the Father.

This, then, is our call. And if we are faithful to it, living as Paul describes us today - those “who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be holy” - then we can become the servant community of people that Isaiah envisioned, a “light to the nations.”