With God’s help and with the help of certain things we know we’ll try to make a dive into our soul. Let’s offer an example. We see a lake. The water appears calm or perhaps there’s a little movement, but nobody knows what’s deep within it. However, when someone who is trained in such things – a frogman, for example – plunges in and goes a meter below the surface, two meters, three meters, he goes to the bottom of the lake provided that it isn’t extremely deep, and he sees what’s down there and informs us.

Today in particular, as we approach the end of the year together – in about twenty-four hours we’ll enter the new year – the reading offers us two passages which are much needed.
In the second verse, we read: As it is written in the Prophets, behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your way before You. When the fullness of time had come, the hour of the incarnation of the Son of God, God sent His messenger – in this particular case, John the Forerunner – to prepare the way through which Christ will later pass.