The Baptism of the Lord
UPDATED: 9 January - to include my homily notes Baptism of Christ , Bartolome Murillo, c. 1665 The Christmas season ends this Sunday, January 10th, with the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Here's a beautiful reflection on that from the Church's prayer book, the Breviary. It's a bit complex, but reveals the power and importance of the sacrament of baptism in our Christian life and why it is such an amazing gift that we should never take for granted. It reminds us just what it means to say that we become sons and daughters of God by baptism and how we belong to Christ, no longer the Evil One, once we are immersed in the sacred baptismal waters through the power of Christ's Cross. It's from an ancient sermon by 3rd century martyr St. Hippolytus Below that reflection are my homily notes for my "quarantine homily" (the one I have to do in print while finishing my recovery from Covid). * * * From a sermon on the Epiphany attributed to Saint Hippol...