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Mo NguyenCẢM NGHIỆM SỐNG LỜI CHÚASat, Jan 9 at 3:44 AMTHE BAPTISM OF THE LORD – YEAR B
SUNDAY 10th JANUARY 2021
SHARING GOD’S GIFT
BREAKING OPEN THE WORD
SHARING GOD’S GIFT (Mark 1: 7-11)
One of the great recurring themes of the scriptures is that God’s irrepressible and untiring desire to bring us into the fullness of life. The reading from Isaiah is filled with images of the life God wants to share with us: water, grain, wine and milk without cost, a life-giving and nourishing word that never returns without achieving its purpose. This life is offered freely – all we need do is seek the Lord to share in this banquet.
For Christians, baptism is a sign of the new life that we have been graciously given through the death and resurrection of Jesus. One of the problems facing John’s community was that of how to deal with false teachings which were dividing and weakening the community and the baptismal promises they had made. John seeks to remind them of the life they share through their baptism and the call to bear witness to it by their love of God and for their sisters and brothers.
In the birth of Jesus God’s life-giving and nourishing word becomes one with us. His baptism marks a moment of grace for him and us. The heavens are opened and God’s empowering Spirit comes upon him as he begins his ministry. God bears testimony to the life that he is pleased to offer us in the Beloved Son. At Jesus’ baptism the voice from heaven proclaims how a time of new life and growth is beginning. For those with eyes to see the rich harvest is already beginning, and the banquet prepared.
CHRISTOPHER MONAGHAN CP
The Gospel - Mark 1:7-11 (The Baptism of the Lord):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjoeZivjuA8
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