Jan 7
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Important events on January 7
Today we celebrate the Council of the Holy Prophet John the Baptist.
St. John the Baptist was the last of the prophets, the forerunner and baptist of our Lord Jesus Christ, “the greatest of those born of women” (Matthew 11:11; Luke 7:28), as the Savior calls him. Jesus further states that he is neither a “reed shaken by the wind,” nor a “man clothed in soft clothing” (Matthew 11: 7–8), thus indicating the…
