Baptism of our Lord: “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”

The Christ Child was manifested to the wise men from the East as the king of the world, the ruler of all nations. The mature God-man opens His public ministry with the manifestation of His divinity on the shore of the Jordan River. The Sacrament of Baptism, prefigured by the baptism of John, incorporates us into union with God. Adopted as sons and made co-heirs of heaven through Baptism and the Holy Spirit, we begin our mission as followers of Christ. Our own lives must echo the words of the forerunner of Christ: “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”

COLLECT: O God, Your only-begotten Son appeared in the substance of our flesh. May He who outwardly was like us, change us interiorly …

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I found this helpful: https://wdtprs.com/2025/01/wdtprs-13-january-baptism-of-the-lord-double-dipping-3/

Do you know the date of your Baptism? If not, reach out to your place of rebirth and ask for the sacramental record. You should celebrate your Baptism Day even more than your birth day, for obvious reasons. Go read the Collect again, and I bid you Memento Mori.

I see there was just a 6.9 earthquake in Japan.

Thousands of people in the mountains of NC are still living in tents, in the dead of winter, with no help from FEMA. Will Trump help them? Has he mentioned them? There are also missing/uncounted dead numbering in the four digits, a story no one is reporting.

As the sun rises on the left coast, winds in LA County the next three days are forecasted to be as bad as last Tuesday when all hell broke loose. We will soon see what that means for the existing, not at all contained fires, as well as potential new ones. 12,000 homes lost as of this morning.

Let us pray that people of faith use their suffering toward the purpose for which it was permitted, always and everywhere.