BAPTISM- THE BEGINNING OF HOPE

 

The BAPTISM OF JESUS, is a sign of HOPE for all in a life that Christ has promised we too will participate in. It is the hope that can come only when we realize that through the birth and death of Jesus,  we have been baptized into new life through Him who was baptized by John in the Jordan River.

 

                                           Baptism of Jesus by Ivanka Demchuk- Ukraine

This feast should also be a reminder of our own baptism where we are born into new life in Jesus bringing us Hope. Hope that can only come from our Savior, whose birth we have just celebrated. He who came into this world as a light in the darkness, where we have new life and where death has lost its sting.

"If we are true to our Baptism, we will spread the light of the hope—Baptism is the beginning of hope, that hope—of God, and we will be able to pass on to future generations the meaning of life."

Just as this Advent season gave us hope of new life, so too does the baptism of Jesus, for baptism is the sacrament of hope and of new beginnings.

The Christmas season comes to an end with the feast of the Baptism of Our Lord.