Why Christians Should Commemorate St. John the Baptist Today

In this episode, we find ourselves celebrating the great Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. There aren't too many people in the liturgical calendar who get a commemoration on the day of our birth (the greatest obviously being Jesus), so why are we commemorating John the Baptist today? Well, if we look and see what the Christians of the early Church did, we'll see that they regarded this a day to "not be passed over in silence". We dig into the Scriptural foundation of this feast, and delve in into the writings of the early Church Fathers to see what reasons the first Christians had to celebrate this occasion.