John the Baptist had heralded Jesus as the Lamb of God, the Coming One, and the Messiah. John had pointed to the Advent of the Christ. But in our reading on this third Sunday of Advent, we see John in a much different setting. You have to wonder if John, who was now sitting in a dungeon, had begun to think he might have made one of the biggest mistakes in history. And you can also imagine that he had a great need to know that the person he’d been prophesying about was the real thing.

Join Pastor Chris as he compares Blind Bartimaeus and John the Baptist in their encounter with joy in this sermon for Gaudete Sunday.

Note: The artwork associated with this podcast (viewable on the Epiclesis website, but not in the Apple Podcast platform), is  “St. John the Baptist in Prison Visited by Two Disciples” (detail) by Giovanni di Paolo.