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Roman Catholic Church in Morden, Surrey

FEAST OF THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD

9/1/2021

 
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Today’s feast reminds us of our own Baptism. Pope Francis encourages us to remember the day we were baptised and celebrate its importance in our life. Dozens of baptisms took place last year here at Saint Teresa’s. We look forward to many more this year in spite of lockdown.
As you may recall:
Original sin separated the human race from God.

Baptism, the sacrament by which the grace Christ won for us on the cross first comes into our soul, is how God re-establishes friendship with every human being, one person at a time.
In a very real sense, every baptism is a miracle.
But Christian life
doesn’t end with baptism – or with the party after the baptism – it only starts there.
Once we have received this great gift, we have to take responsibility for it. Imagine that Jesus Christ were in our living room.
  • Imagine that he was always there, at our service, completely willing to go with us when we go out, to help us with our chores and projects, to show us the world, to teach us whatever we wanted to know, to be a full-time personal trainer for every aspect of our life.
  • Would we leave him there alone?
  • Would we never take time to be with him, never invite him to come with us when we went out, never
    talk to him about all the things going on in our life?
  • Would we limit our contact with him to saying hi and bye when we had to go through the living room?
Christ is not in our living room: but he, and the Father and the Holy Spirit, are in our soul through the sanctifying grace that we received in baptism.
And it is our responsibility and opportunity to take advantage of that fact, to develop a deep and personal friendship with God throughout our lives.

That’s the only way we will be able to discover and fulfil our life mission.


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