By now, many Catholics and institutions have set up the manger scene, the representation of the birth of the little child Jesus that was popularized by St. Francis.
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This Third Sunday of Advent is also called “Gaudete” Sunday, and there is an option of having rose as a liturgical color. Rose is a color of joy. “Gaudete” means “Rejoice”, which is a quotation from Phil. 4:4-5: “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice! The Lord is near”.
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We are all familiar with the “cursor” of our computer – it points to what we have to fix our attention on. John the Baptist is called the precursor of Jesus, as he was the one who prepared the people to receive Our Lord, and he was the one who “pointed him out” to the first disciples.
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