The Baptism of the Lord
Join us at our Saturday mass, at 4:30 p.m., in the Chapel located in the Education Building or on Zoom. The passcode to enter is: liturgy. Please mute yourselves upon entering. This week’s worship aid is found here.
We end the season of Christmas at a beginning – the entrance of Jesus through baptism into his adult ministry. Christians have long argued that Jesus, who was without sin, did not need to be baptized by John the Baptist in the waters of the Jordan. But Jesus saw it as a necessary step in living his humanity to the full. Likewise, we today believe that baptism gives us a foretaste of the Holy Spirit and helps us to begin to live fully into our humanity as a child of God.
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Abundant blessings,
Rev. Kate Lehman, OSB
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St. Teresa of Ávila is united with many other authentic Catholic faith communities as a member of the Ecumenical Catholic Communion (ECC). The ECC is a "community of communities" that share a common theology and liturgical tradition with the Roman Catholic Church, but do not participate in its canon law. The "ECC Difference" can be seen in the inclusion of all baptized Christians at the Eucharistic table, respect for and recognition that the Spirit is at work in those of other religions, ordination of women and married individuals, offering of the sacrament of marriage to committed LGBT couples and those remarrying after divorce, invitation to follow conscience regarding birth control, and active/equal involvement of the laity in the governance of the Communion.