Fr Hunwicke suggests that we could in our Rosary ponder the mysteries of the life of St John the Baptist:
The Annunciation to Zachary
the Visitation
the Nativity of S John Baptist
the Baptism of Christ
the Beheading of S John Baptist.
And as one of Fr H's commenters suggested, we could, by the phrase in italics added below, make more concrete and specific for our times, the liturgical collect:
O God, who willed that Saint John the Baptist should go ahead of your Son both in his birth and in his death, grant that, as he died a Martyr for
the truth about the sacred bond of marriage, we, too, may fight hard for the confession that you teach..."
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