Today we celebrate the Second Sunday in ordinary time. Through the Gospel the Church invites us to stand beside John the Baptist at the Jordan River and to hear words that have echoed through Christian prayer for two thousand years; "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world."

These words are so familiar to us that we hear them almost automatically at every Mass. But today's Gospel asks us to slow down and truly listen to them again - to hear them not just as liturgical words but as a revelation of who Jesus is and why He has come.