text: Sister might have reflected on the fact that today is the Solemn Feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist, the LAST prophet before Jesus.
  
  We could turn St John's assertion into a useful aspiration (short prayers, repeated through out the day)
  
  He said:  He [Jesus] must increase, and I must decrease.
  
  How have we help Jesus increase in our world today?
  
  How have we made sincere acts of humility? How many?