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THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD: Why Was Christ Baptized?
READINGS THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD On this first Sunday in Ordinary Times, Year C, we celebrate the Baptism of our Lord. With the birth of Christ, God had to find a way to help us identify Him as the Lamb of God, the Savior, because anyone could rise and claim that he is the Messiah. The baptism of the Lord served this purpose, and we can, actually, call it the Epiphany of the Lamb. In the gospel of John, John the Baptist said, “So that He might be manifested to Israel, I came

Msgr. Anselm Nwaorgu
Jan 53 min read
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