{"id":28246,"date":"2026-01-16T14:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/?p=28246"},"modified":"2026-01-16T14:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:41:07","slug":"more-than-any-man-mas-que-cualquier-otro-hombre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2026\/01\/16\/more-than-any-man-mas-que-cualquier-otro-hombre\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than Any Man \/ M\u00e1s Que Cualquier Otro Hombre\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Por Fr. Ed Liptak, SDB <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A precious memory during the Christmas Season was of Joseph and Mary bringing Baby Jesus to the Temple and offering Him back to God. They heard Simeon proclaim the Child to be \u2018Salvation, \u2018Light and Glory\u2019 of nations. Likewise, this second Sunday in Ordinary Time, we hear Isaiah centuries before state about the Messiah and God\u2019s Chosen People, \u201cI will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We, God\u2019s Newly Chosen People, believe in Christ. We accept that as St. Paul addressed the Christians of Corinth, so he speaks to us, \u201cYou who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be holy, with all those everywhere who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours.\u201d All of us Baptized in water of Spirit and Fre, in water and Blood of Christ, are made holy, sanctified, and saved. On Sundays ahead we will see and learn from our Savior at work. Now after the Baptism of Jesus, we hear the testimony of John proclaiming Him to pall who would listen. Among them was John the Evangelist, author of this Sunday\u2019s Gospel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the Evangelist wrote marked Jesus as no ordinary man. \u201cJohn the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said, \u201cBehold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.\u201d The blood of the Paschal Lamb smeared on the wood of the door frames spared Israel from the loss of their first-born sons, and as for taking away sin, only God can do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In today\u2019s Gospel, the Baptist humbly stated that Jesus ranked before him, that he existed before him\u2014not true in human terms, for John was born six months before Him but very true if Jebus pre-existed John in life eternal. Twice the Baptist said, \u2018I did not know him,\u201d but that he was told to baptize to make Jesus known, and a second time, that he would recognize Jesus by the Spirit descending and remaining upon Him. Finally, John said that Jesus too would Baptize \u2018in water and \u2018the Spirit,\u2019 that is, water made holy by the Spirit. Jesus Christ in whom we believe was no ordinary man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have seen and testified
He is the Son of God.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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M\u00e1s que cualquier otro hombre<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Un recuerdo valioso durante la temporada navide\u00f1a fue de Jos\u00e9 y Mar\u00eda trayendo al Ni\u00f1o Jes\u00fas al Templo y ofreci\u00e9ndolo de vuelta a Dios. Escucharon a Sime\u00f3n proclamar al Ni\u00f1o como ‘Salvaci\u00f3n, ‘Luz y Gloria’ de las naciones. De igual modo, este segundo domingo en Tiempo Ordinario, escuchamos a Isa\u00edas, siglos antes , afirmar sobre el Mes\u00edas y el Pueblo Elegido de Dios: “Os har\u00e9 luz para las naciones, para que mi salvaci\u00f3n llegue hasta los confines de la tierra.”
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Nosotros, el pueblo reci\u00e9n elegido de Dios, creemos en Cristo.\u00a0\u00a0Aceptamos que, como San Pablo se dirigi\u00f3 a los cristianos de Corinto, as\u00ed nos habla: “Vosotros, que hab\u00e9is sido santificados en Cristo Jes\u00fas, llamados a ser santos, con todos los que invoc\u00e1is el nombre de nuestro Se\u00f1or Jesucristo, su Se\u00f1or y nuestro.” Todos los bautizados en el agua del Esp\u00edritu y el fuego, en el agua y la Sangre de Cristo, somos santificados, santificados y salvos. Los domingos que vienen veremos y aprenderemos de nuestro Salvador en acci\u00f3n. Ahora, despu\u00e9s del Bautismo de Jes\u00fas, escuchamos el testimonio de Juan proclam\u00e1ndole a todos los que quieren escuchar. Entre ellos estaba Juan el Evangelista, autor del Evangelio de este domingo.
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Lo que escribi\u00f3 el Evangelista marc\u00f3 a Jes\u00fas como un hombre cualquiera. “Juan el Bautista vio a Jes\u00fas acercarse y dijo: “He aqu\u00ed, el Cordero de Dios, que quita el pecado del mundo.” La sangre del Cordero Pascual manchada en la madera de los marcos de las puertas salv\u00f3 a Israel de la p\u00e9rdida de sus primog\u00e9nitos, y en cuanto a quitar el pecado, solo Dios puede hacerlo.
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En el Evangelio de hoy, el Bautista humildemente afirm\u00f3 que Jes\u00fas estaba ante \u00e9l, que exist\u00eda antes que \u00e9l\u2014no es cierto en t\u00e9rminos humanos, pues Juan naci\u00f3 seis meses antes que \u00e9l, pero muy cierto si Jebus existi\u00f3 antes que Juan en vida eterna. Dos veces el bautista dijo: ‘No le conoc\u00ed\u00bb, pero que le dijeron que bautizara para dar a conocer a Jes\u00fas, y una segunda vez, que reconocer\u00eda a Jes\u00fas por el Esp\u00edritu descendiendo y permaneciendo sobre \u00c9l. Finalmente, Juan dijo que Jes\u00fas tambi\u00e9n bautizar\u00eda ‘en agua y ‘en el Esp\u00edritu’, es decir, agua santificada por el Esp\u00edritu. Jesucristo, en quien creemos, no era un hombre com\u00fan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“He visto y testificado
\u00c9l es el Hijo de Dios.”<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Fr. Ed Liptak, SDB A precious memory during the Christmas Season was of Joseph and Mary bringing Baby Jesus to the Temple and offering Him back to God. They heard Simeon proclaim the Child to be \u2018Salvation, \u2018Light and Glory\u2019 of nations. Likewise, this second Sunday in Ordinary Time, we hear Isaiah centuries before state about the Messiah and God\u2019s Chosen People, \u201cI will … Continuar leyendo More Than Any Man \/ M\u00e1s Que Cualquier Otro Hombre\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":10336596,"featured_media":12531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[777629889,2343517,20310044],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fr-ed-liptak","category-gospel-reflection","category-province-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/salesianbulletin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/intouch-scripture-graphic-feature.jpg?fit=1600%2C510&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p59ePG-7lA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10336596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28248,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28246\/revisions\/28248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}